prissy
13
7.9
- adjective
- /ˈprɪsi/
- Informal
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- Come on, don't be so prissy, she said and giggled.
Like like look, my dad always said we have a small house in London, but people have become so prissy with space it's nuts.
- Like like look, my dad always said we have a small house in London, but people have become so prissy with space it's nuts.
- And they actually, you know, their statements were very prissy, but they weren't dead.
Examples
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Their guide is a prissy old blue-haired girl in a billed cap reciting what she's memorized.
Fiction book (1990) -
Don't be so prissy; it's just a little dirt on your shoes!
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Actually, I was a prissy little tot.
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Cheerleaders always just seem so prissy.
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He's so prissy and wholesome.
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Don't be so prissy.
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In the ad, a prissy Yankee orders a chopped-emu sandwich at the counter of a barbecue.
Fiction book (2000) -
She is too prissy to enjoy messy playdate activities like finger painting.
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His prissy attitude made it difficult for him to relax at fun, casual gatherings.
Synonyms
106
4.4
Careful about small details and hard to please
93
7.9
Being very picky about small details and cleanliness
67
4.7
Being hard to please about food or small details
24
3.9
Easily annoyed and hard to please about small things
15
3.9
Hard to please when choosing things like clothes or food
14
8.2
Disapproving of pleasure and very strict about moral behavior
12
7.1
Hard to please and careful about small details
8
8.0
Very careful about small details and being clean, often hard to please
8
7.1
Easily shocked by sex and strict about modesty
4
7.1
Very strict about correct behavior and manners
4
6.7
A person who is very fussy about food or cleanliness
4
9.8
Being very picky about small details
4
7.0
Very formal and proper in a stiff, old-fashioned way
3
7.0
Very formal and correct in clothes and manners, often strict and stiff
1
8.4
Very strict about manners and morals and disapproving of anything seen as improper
1
7.8
Very strict about behavior and dress
1
8.2
Having very strict rules about proper behaviour and dress
Too worried about small details and hard to please
Careful about small details and hard to please
Being very picky about small details when choosing or arranging things
A person who acts very fussy about small things like dirt or food and gets upset easily
Giving too much attention to small, unimportant details
Being very fussy about neatness and proper behaviour
Being too fussy about small things in a way seen as typical of older women
Too formal and neat in a way that feels cold
Being very strict about how people behave and dress
Very old-fashioned and formal in behavior or views
Antonyms
How Prissy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Prissy is easy to remember if you think of precious or prim, which suggest 'too neat' or 'too proper'. So a prissy person acts like they are easily shocked and want everything tidy and correct.