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Prissy
Definitions
- 1 Prim and fussy; too precise; overparticular. colloquial
"She was a small, neat, rather prissy-looking girl with primly smooth brown hair and rimless glasses […]"
- 2 Lacking masculine vigor; sissified; effeminate. colloquial, derogatory, usually
"Mom was always pushing her only daughter to become some kind of prissy feminine beauty."
- 3 Well-mannered; well-behaved. colloquial
"As women post en masse over the course of the day and long into the night, the mood changes: The daylight crowd tends to be prissier; the night crowd rowdier (and drunker); the late-night crowd surrealistic and unpredictable, made up of the extremely sleep deprived, from mothers of newborns to insomniacs in the midst of a divorce."
- 1 excessively fastidious and easily disgusted wordnet
- 2 exaggeratedly proper wordnet
- 1 A diminutive of the female given name Priscilla.
- 1 A person who is prissy. colloquial, rare
"1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure I really like Beau. He sure enjoys being admired & lusted over. He just lays back like a king & enjoys. What a prissy!"
Etymology
1895, either an alteration of precise, blend of prim + sissy, or a blend of prim + fussy; first attested in a work of American writer Joel Chandler Harris.
1895, either an alteration of precise, blend of prim + sissy, or a blend of prim + fussy; first attested in a work of American writer Joel Chandler Harris.
From Priscilla + -y.
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