OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 30629

prissy

/ˈpɹɪsi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
finoli • finolis • remilgado • repipi
Prim and fussy; too precise; overparticular.
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 priss…
She was a small, neat, rather prissy-looking girl with primly smooth brown hair and rimless glasses […]
caballero
Well-mannered; well-behaved.
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 lat…
You drive like one of those prissy ladies at lunch who won't take the last cookie in case somebody else wants it.
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