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Priggish

//ˈpɹɪɡɪʃ// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Like a prig.

    "To ride; to dance; she had adored all that. Or going long walks in the country, talking, about books, what to do with one’s life, for young people were amazingly priggish—oh, the things one had said!"

Adjective
  1. 1
    exaggeratedly proper wordnet

Etymology

From prig + -ish.

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