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prissy

adjective

1 prissy

Exaggeratedly proper.

synonyms: priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced ... show more.

is similar to: proper.

derivation: priggishness, primness | Grundyism, primness, prudery, prudishness | prude, puritan.

Polish: pruderyjny

2 prissy

Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted.

synonyms: dainty, nice, overnice, squeamish.

is similar to: fastidious.

derivation: squeamishness | qualm, queasiness, squeamishness.

Moby thesaurus: Victorian, chicken, effeminate, epicene, fastidious, finical, finicky, fussy, genteel, muliebrous, old-maidish, old-womanish, precious, priggish, prudish, puritanical, sissified, sissy, sissyish, soft ... show more.

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