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prissy

[ pris-ee ]

adjective

prissier, prissiest.
  1. excessively proper; affectedly correct; prim.


prissy

/ ˈ±è°ùɪ²õɪ /

adjective

  1. fussy and prim, esp in a prudish way
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ±è°ù¾±²õ²õ¾±±ô²â, adverb
  • ˈ±è°ù¾±²õ²õ¾±²Ô±ð²õ²õ, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ±è°ù¾±²õs¾±Â·±ô²â adverb
  • ±è°ù¾±²õs¾±Â·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of prissy1

1890–95, Americanism; blend of prim 1 and sissy
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of prissy1

C20: probably from prim + sissy
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Spears also played basketball in school and worked at a seafood restaurant cleaning shellfish and serving plates of food “while doing my prissy dancing in my cute little outfits,†the singer wrote.

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Despite her San Francisco pedigree, Feinstein was despised by many on the political left, who found her personally too prissy and politically too centrist.

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He disparages “the global diplomatic system†as anachronistic, prissy, overpopulated.

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Harry, too, is Dickensian, but more like one of Dickens’s monstrous, red-eyed lawyers: He is cruel, peremptory and, with his dyed hair and prissy bow tie, dandyish in his self-regard.

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UIC’s prissy bullies, like fanatics generally, have no sense of irony.

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