Meaning

(India, colloquial) A principal (chief academic officer)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (India, colloquial) A principal (chief academic officer).
2. (informal, rare) Synonym of princely.

Example Sentences

Have you taken the principal’s permission? […] We agree[,] let’s meet the princy first thing tomorrow.

It’s Monday and the princy has called my dad to school to complain about the fight I got into last week.

I have nothing else to say, and I don’t know why the princy admitted me despite my poor marks.

Cinderella does not have to worry about matches these days either. Electricity? you say. Yes, but that was for the very “princiest” of Cinderellas, and you forget we are talking about the average.

Her lips were as velvety smooth as the petals of a princy feather and unbelievably sweet.

Three waiters were working the floor, one of whom is the absolute double of the late cyclist Marco Pantani, while there’s also a young dude who was as smooth as peanut butter and as charming as the princiest prince in all of Disney.

[…] (I think in Answer they actually did a really good job at this, he looked very princy and delicate among the rest and that gave his part a lot of power).

Word Forms

• princies
• princier
• princiest

Synonyms for princy

When Should You Use Princy?

Use princy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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