prissy
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i adjective, pris·si·er, pris·si·est.
excessively proper; affectedly correct; prim.
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| —adj , -sier, -siest | |
| fussy and prim, esp in a prudish way | |
| [C20: probably from | |
| 'prissily | |
| —adv | |
| 'prissiness | |
| —n | |
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Prissy
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Word Origin & History
prissy
1895, first attested in Joel Chandler Harris, probably an alteration of precise (q.v.), or a merger of prim and sissy. Back-formed noun priss is recorded from 1923.
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Example sentences
But what was prissy to the hip may become as it were a new context.
At once suave and stuffy, he speaks in a phony, pseudo-academic voice that's slightly prissy and determinedly above it all.
It sounds too prissy for something as tough as the saddles he has made.
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