I don't like that prissy face of yours.
Source: tatoeba (4931711)
Prissy
//ˈpɹɪsi//
Synonyms for "prissy" (46 found)
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Closest matches (10)
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Related words (23)
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2 entriesderived
5 entriesderived from
5 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesrelated to
11 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
29 translations across 11 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- превзет adj (prim and fussy)
- престорен adj (prim and fussy)
Catalan
3 entries- cursi adj (prim and fussy)
- finolis adj (prim and fussy)
- melindrós adj (prim and fussy)
Czech
3 entries- cimprlich adj (prim and fussy)
- prudérní adj (prim and fussy)
- upjatý adj (prim and fussy)
Finnish
1 entries- sievistelevä adj (prim and fussy)
German
4 entries- bieder adj (well-behaved, well-mannered)
- brav adj (well-behaved, well-mannered)
- spießig adj (prim and fussy)
- zimperlich adj (prim and fussy)
Greek
1 entries- σεμνότυφος adj (prim and fussy)
Italian
2 entries- perbenista adj (prim and fussy)
- perbenistico adj (prim and fussy)
Russian
3 entries- благонра́вный adj (well-behaved, well-mannered)
- жема́нный adj (prim and fussy)
- чо́порный adj (prim and fussy)
Spanish
4 entries- caballero adj (well-behaved, well-mannered)
- finoli adj (prim and fussy)
- finolis adj (prim and fussy)
- remilgado adj (prim and fussy)
Swedish
1 entries- pimpinett adj (prim and fussy)
Ukrainian
3 entries- мані́жний adj (prim and fussy)
- мані́рний adj (prim and fussy)
- ґре́чний adj (well-behaved, well-mannered)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
Mr. Phillips goes up to see Prissy Andrews nearly every evening. He says it is to help her with her lessons.
Source: tatoeba (5831646)
She was a small, neat, rather prissy-looking girl with primly smooth brown hair and rimless glasses […]
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
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