Definition of prissy in English:

prissy

adjectiveprissiest, prissier ˈprɪsiˈprɪsi

Fussily and excessively respectable.
a middle-class family with two prissy children
Example sentencesExamples
- Lemmon acts prissy and proper while Matthau schmoozes with the ladies, all the while acting like a general lout.
- The look was schoolmarm prissy, but sexy and was every grown up boy's fantasy of a saucy school mistress or strict female dominant leader like Margaret Thatcher.
- Kath, a sex-crazed single mother, comes under the scrutiny of her prissy daughter, Kim, when the younger woman leaves her husband and moves back in with Mum.
- Think how much better it is that the opposite: prissy, priggish public expression and sinning like mad privately.
- He flails around at everyone but directs most of his outbursts towards Margaret who acts like a prissy school teacher.
- And everyone is guided, not by the oracle, but by a prissy astrologer named Farley.
- There was nothing prissy at all about another starter which consisted of a pile of rocket, aubergine purée, fried artichokes slices, shavings of Parmesan and basil on an agreeably chewy slice of toasted olive oil bread.
- She plays Tracy Flick, an extreme overachiever who has set her prissy little heart on becoming president of the school council.
- Though, I fear that I am becoming the woman I created for this façade; prim, proper, prissy.
- But basically, all you need to know is she's wandering the familiar halls of Eisenhower high right now back in comfortable Indiana as I sit in some prissy old school all the way in Virginia.
- Actually, the man does sound rather a jerk, but no more so than the prissy madam who lectures him about ‘Good Medical Practice’ while depriving him of his living for the crime of stating an unwelcome truth.
- While America proved unready for the debut Rosset published, its mainstream chances stifled by a prissy New York Times review, France took the book to its heart and today Guinzburg is a national celebrity there.
- If the artist's approach often tends to such simplistic judgements, it also degenerates into prissy political correctness and schoolmarmy cluck clucking.
- She's a brave choice for a lead, a brittle, almost prissy character who reacts to her situation with irritation and denial more than anything else.
- They don't want a prissy bar for freaky ‘beautiful people’ where they can sip cocktails and chat about style.
- Imagine how that set of policies, from this prissy pillar of property and propriety, would radicalize national taxation in any modern state.
- Good enough for me, I dearly hope that this school doesn't end up to be a prissy school in which everyone wears khakis and blouses all the time.
- And we gentle Poms have acclaimed your control, admired your velocity, wet ourselves over the immaculate precision of your bouncers and waxed lyrical over your infinite superiority to our own prissy dobbers.
- The colours weren't girlie or prissy, but unusual and beautiful, with unexpected combinations of salmon pink, cream and peat brown, jade and raspberry, or orange and baby blue.
- It's always a joy to watch prissy corporate mail filters twitch their lace curtains and bounce back NTK when they spot a phrase they don't like.
Synonyms
prudish, priggish, prim, prim and proper, niminy-piminy, strait-laced
formal, proper, stuffy, mimsy, namby-pamby, Victorian, old-maidish, schoolmistressy, schoolmarmish, governessy
British po-faced
informal goody-goody, starchy
rare square-toed, Grundyish

Derivatives

prissily

adverb

Instead he just turns a page of his newspaper prissily, not even looking up.
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘I'd know, and that's enough,’ Dennis said rather prissily.
- It was perched prissily on the pillow of Mr. and Mrs. Chonce's neatly made bed.
- We each turned to Antonio who was gazing prissily at his nails, examining them closely.
- ‘You shouldn't laugh at other's mistakes, Lionel,’ she said prissily.

prissiness

noun

Lyndhurst is ideally cast in the title role, a slightly malevolent character in the background, acidic of tongue and a picture of prissiness.
Example sentencesExamples
- This and adjacent forms of speech do not, however, go with any narrow prissiness.
- The complete lack of prissiness, pretentiousness and pomp among the Knights ensures that they themselves would never broadcast such an opinion, but there is a growing weight to it.
- Keep them away from me, their prissiness is getting to my brain.
- He retained mahua liquor and tribal sensuality, but brought in the prissiness of the urban middleclass, plus his own reticence.

Origin

Late 19th century: perhaps a blend of prim and sissy.

prime from early 16th century:
At the start of the 16th century to prime was ‘to fill or load’, especially a gun for firing. It was probably based on Latin primus ‘first’, also the source of the adjective prime (Late Middle English), since priming something is the first operation you perform before using it. Priming the pump of business refers to pouring a small amount of water into a mechanical pump to establish suction so that it can begin to work properly. Primus is also the source of primary (Late Middle English); primeval (M17th from primus and aevum ‘age’); and primitive (Late Middle English). It is probably also the source of prim (late 17th century), via a Provençal variant prin meaning ‘excellent, delicate’. Prim blended with sissy gives prissy (late 19th century).

Rhymes

Chrissie, Cissy, kissy, missy, sissy

Definition of prissy in US English:

prissy

adjectiveˈprisēˈprɪsi

Fussily and excessively respectable.
her prissy mother
prissy little dresses
Example sentencesExamples
- Think how much better it is that the opposite: prissy, priggish public expression and sinning like mad privately.
- It's always a joy to watch prissy corporate mail filters twitch their lace curtains and bounce back NTK when they spot a phrase they don't like.
- They don't want a prissy bar for freaky ‘beautiful people’ where they can sip cocktails and chat about style.
- She plays Tracy Flick, an extreme overachiever who has set her prissy little heart on becoming president of the school council.
- Good enough for me, I dearly hope that this school doesn't end up to be a prissy school in which everyone wears khakis and blouses all the time.
- The colours weren't girlie or prissy, but unusual and beautiful, with unexpected combinations of salmon pink, cream and peat brown, jade and raspberry, or orange and baby blue.
- While America proved unready for the debut Rosset published, its mainstream chances stifled by a prissy New York Times review, France took the book to its heart and today Guinzburg is a national celebrity there.
- And we gentle Poms have acclaimed your control, admired your velocity, wet ourselves over the immaculate precision of your bouncers and waxed lyrical over your infinite superiority to our own prissy dobbers.
- Though, I fear that I am becoming the woman I created for this façade; prim, proper, prissy.
- Kath, a sex-crazed single mother, comes under the scrutiny of her prissy daughter, Kim, when the younger woman leaves her husband and moves back in with Mum.
- If the artist's approach often tends to such simplistic judgements, it also degenerates into prissy political correctness and schoolmarmy cluck clucking.
- The look was schoolmarm prissy, but sexy and was every grown up boy's fantasy of a saucy school mistress or strict female dominant leader like Margaret Thatcher.
- There was nothing prissy at all about another starter which consisted of a pile of rocket, aubergine purée, fried artichokes slices, shavings of Parmesan and basil on an agreeably chewy slice of toasted olive oil bread.
- Actually, the man does sound rather a jerk, but no more so than the prissy madam who lectures him about ‘Good Medical Practice’ while depriving him of his living for the crime of stating an unwelcome truth.
- But basically, all you need to know is she's wandering the familiar halls of Eisenhower high right now back in comfortable Indiana as I sit in some prissy old school all the way in Virginia.
- She's a brave choice for a lead, a brittle, almost prissy character who reacts to her situation with irritation and denial more than anything else.
- Lemmon acts prissy and proper while Matthau schmoozes with the ladies, all the while acting like a general lout.
- He flails around at everyone but directs most of his outbursts towards Margaret who acts like a prissy school teacher.
- And everyone is guided, not by the oracle, but by a prissy astrologer named Farley.
- Imagine how that set of policies, from this prissy pillar of property and propriety, would radicalize national taxation in any modern state.
Synonyms
prudish, priggish, prim, prim and proper, niminy-piminy, strait-laced

Origin

Late 19th century: perhaps a blend of prim and sissy.

单词	prissy
释义	Definition of prissy in English: prissy adjectiveprissiest, prissier ˈprɪsiˈprɪsi Fussily and excessively respectable. a middle-class family with two prissy children Example sentencesExamples Lemmon acts prissy and proper while Matthau schmoozes with the ladies, all the while acting like a general lout. The look was schoolmarm prissy, but sexy and was every grown up boy's fantasy of a saucy school mistress or strict female dominant leader like Margaret Thatcher. Kath, a sex-crazed single mother, comes under the scrutiny of her prissy daughter, Kim, when the younger woman leaves her husband and moves back in with Mum. Think how much better it is that the opposite: prissy, priggish public expression and sinning like mad privately. He flails around at everyone but directs most of his outbursts towards Margaret who acts like a prissy school teacher. And everyone is guided, not by the oracle, but by a prissy astrologer named Farley. There was nothing prissy at all about another starter which consisted of a pile of rocket, aubergine purée, fried artichokes slices, shavings of Parmesan and basil on an agreeably chewy slice of toasted olive oil bread. She plays Tracy Flick, an extreme overachiever who has set her prissy little heart on becoming president of the school council. Though, I fear that I am becoming the woman I created for this façade; prim, proper, prissy. But basically, all you need to know is she's wandering the familiar halls of Eisenhower high right now back in comfortable Indiana as I sit in some prissy old school all the way in Virginia. Actually, the man does sound rather a jerk, but no more so than the prissy madam who lectures him about ‘Good Medical Practice’ while depriving him of his living for the crime of stating an unwelcome truth. While America proved unready for the debut Rosset published, its mainstream chances stifled by a prissy New York Times review, France took the book to its heart and today Guinzburg is a national celebrity there. If the artist's approach often tends to such simplistic judgements, it also degenerates into prissy political correctness and schoolmarmy cluck clucking. She's a brave choice for a lead, a brittle, almost prissy character who reacts to her situation with irritation and denial more than anything else. They don't want a prissy bar for freaky ‘beautiful people’ where they can sip cocktails and chat about style. Imagine how that set of policies, from this prissy pillar of property and propriety, would radicalize national taxation in any modern state. Good enough for me, I dearly hope that this school doesn't end up to be a prissy school in which everyone wears khakis and blouses all the time. And we gentle Poms have acclaimed your control, admired your velocity, wet ourselves over the immaculate precision of your bouncers and waxed lyrical over your infinite superiority to our own prissy dobbers. The colours weren't girlie or prissy, but unusual and beautiful, with unexpected combinations of salmon pink, cream and peat brown, jade and raspberry, or orange and baby blue. It's always a joy to watch prissy corporate mail filters twitch their lace curtains and bounce back NTK when they spot a phrase they don't like. Synonyms prudish, priggish, prim, prim and proper, niminy-piminy, strait-laced formal, proper, stuffy, mimsy, namby-pamby, Victorian, old-maidish, schoolmistressy, schoolmarmish, governessy British po-faced informal goody-goody, starchy rare square-toed, Grundyish Derivatives prissily adverb Instead he just turns a page of his newspaper prissily, not even looking up. Example sentencesExamples ‘I'd know, and that's enough,’ Dennis said rather prissily. It was perched prissily on the pillow of Mr. and Mrs. Chonce's neatly made bed. We each turned to Antonio who was gazing prissily at his nails, examining them closely. ‘You shouldn't laugh at other's mistakes, Lionel,’ she said prissily. prissiness noun Lyndhurst is ideally cast in the title role, a slightly malevolent character in the background, acidic of tongue and a picture of prissiness. Example sentencesExamples This and adjacent forms of speech do not, however, go with any narrow prissiness. The complete lack of prissiness, pretentiousness and pomp among the Knights ensures that they themselves would never broadcast such an opinion, but there is a growing weight to it. Keep them away from me, their prissiness is getting to my brain. He retained mahua liquor and tribal sensuality, but brought in the prissiness of the urban middleclass, plus his own reticence. Origin Late 19th century: perhaps a blend of prim and sissy. prime from early 16th century: At the start of the 16th century to prime was ‘to fill or load’, especially a gun for firing. It was probably based on Latin primus ‘first’, also the source of the adjective prime (Late Middle English), since priming something is the first operation you perform before using it. Priming the pump of business refers to pouring a small amount of water into a mechanical pump to establish suction so that it can begin to work properly. Primus is also the source of primary (Late Middle English); primeval (M17th from primus and aevum ‘age’); and primitive (Late Middle English). It is probably also the source of prim (late 17th century), via a Provençal variant prin meaning ‘excellent, delicate’. Prim blended with sissy gives prissy (late 19th century). Rhymes Chrissie, Cissy, kissy, missy, sissy Definition of prissy in US English: prissy adjectiveˈprisēˈprɪsi Fussily and excessively respectable. her prissy mother prissy little dresses Example sentencesExamples Think how much better it is that the opposite: prissy, priggish public expression and sinning like mad privately. It's always a joy to watch prissy corporate mail filters twitch their lace curtains and bounce back NTK when they spot a phrase they don't like. They don't want a prissy bar for freaky ‘beautiful people’ where they can sip cocktails and chat about style. She plays Tracy Flick, an extreme overachiever who has set her prissy little heart on becoming president of the school council. Good enough for me, I dearly hope that this school doesn't end up to be a prissy school in which everyone wears khakis and blouses all the time. The colours weren't girlie or prissy, but unusual and beautiful, with unexpected combinations of salmon pink, cream and peat brown, jade and raspberry, or orange and baby blue. While America proved unready for the debut Rosset published, its mainstream chances stifled by a prissy New York Times review, France took the book to its heart and today Guinzburg is a national celebrity there. And we gentle Poms have acclaimed your control, admired your velocity, wet ourselves over the immaculate precision of your bouncers and waxed lyrical over your infinite superiority to our own prissy dobbers. Though, I fear that I am becoming the woman I created for this façade; prim, proper, prissy. Kath, a sex-crazed single mother, comes under the scrutiny of her prissy daughter, Kim, when the younger woman leaves her husband and moves back in with Mum. If the artist's approach often tends to such simplistic judgements, it also degenerates into prissy political correctness and schoolmarmy cluck clucking. The look was schoolmarm prissy, but sexy and was every grown up boy's fantasy of a saucy school mistress or strict female dominant leader like Margaret Thatcher. There was nothing prissy at all about another starter which consisted of a pile of rocket, aubergine purée, fried artichokes slices, shavings of Parmesan and basil on an agreeably chewy slice of toasted olive oil bread. Actually, the man does sound rather a jerk, but no more so than the prissy madam who lectures him about ‘Good Medical Practice’ while depriving him of his living for the crime of stating an unwelcome truth. But basically, all you need to know is she's wandering the familiar halls of Eisenhower high right now back in comfortable Indiana as I sit in some prissy old school all the way in Virginia. She's a brave choice for a lead, a brittle, almost prissy character who reacts to her situation with irritation and denial more than anything else. Lemmon acts prissy and proper while Matthau schmoozes with the ladies, all the while acting like a general lout. He flails around at everyone but directs most of his outbursts towards Margaret who acts like a prissy school teacher. And everyone is guided, not by the oracle, but by a prissy astrologer named Farley. Imagine how that set of policies, from this prissy pillar of property and propriety, would radicalize national taxation in any modern state. Synonyms prudish, priggish, prim, prim and proper, niminy-piminy, strait-laced Origin Late 19th century: perhaps a blend of prim and sissy.
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