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WORDNET DICTIONARY
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prissy

POS

Adjective, Noun

HYPHEN

pris=sy

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective prissy has 2 senses

prissy(s = adj.all) priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian - exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
prissy(s = adj.all) dainty, nice, overnice, squeamish - excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

prissy, adj. (prissier, prissiest) prim, prudish.

Derivative

prissily adv. prissiness n.

Etymology

perh. f. PRIM + SISSY

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THESAURUS

prissy

Victorian, chicken, effeminate, epicene, fastidious, finical, finicky, fussy, genteel, muliebrous, old-maidish, old-womanish, precious, priggish, prudish, puritanical, sissified, sissy, sissyish, soft, squeamish, strait-laced, straitlaced, stuffy, unmanly, womanish