Prissy

/ˈpɹɪsi/ · adjective

Meaning

Prim and fussy; too precise; overparticular..

Definitions by Sense

1. Prim and fussy; too precise; overparticular.
2. (usually derogatory) Lacking masculine vigor; sissified; effeminate.
3. Well-mannered; well-behaved.
4. (rare) A person who is prissy.

Example Sentences

She was a small, neat, rather prissy-looking girl with primly smooth brown hair and rimless glasses […]

As Nathanial Mayweather, heir to the Mayweather Hotel fortune, Elliott doesn’t disdain the hoi polloi so much as he considers everyone, even the faculty and headmaster at the prissiest private school in existence, to be part of it.

European languages like English are just prissier about getting that pronoun in there.

I refused to wear this properly as it looked a bit prissy, so I butchly slung it over one shoulder.

Mom was always pushing her only daughter to become some kind of prissy feminine beauty.

A pink can held shaving gel with a prissy, feminine smell.

Her clothes were not at all unusual or fashionable, a plain slate-blue dress and a magenta cardigan sweater with a somewhat prissy line of pearl buttons down the front.

A healthy trepidation about microbes, lice and the like is the key to a happy prissy lifestyle.

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Word Forms

• prissier
• prissiest
• prissies

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