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单词 prissy
释义
prissypris‧sy /ˈprɪsi/ adjective informal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINprissy
Origin:
1800-1900 Probably from prim + sissy
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a look of prissy disapproval
  • She always irritated me - she was so prissy.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Art Lux and Vinny Pearson, the newspapers, the party bigwigs, the whole prissy state of Minnesota.
  • I suppose if Rupert had not been a bear he might have been considered prissy, like Noddy.
  • Stepan Verkhovensky is prissy, frenchified, very feminine though not at all homosexual.
  • To argue would be prissy, he decided.
behaving very correctly and easily shocked by anything rude – used to show disapprovalprissily adverbprissiness noun [uncountable]
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