prissy, adj.
(prissier, prissiest)
(prissier, prissiest)
excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
<adj.all>
dainty nice overnice prissy squeamish
sample sentences
"too nice about his food to take to camp cooking""so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"
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exaggeratedly proper
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
priggish prim prissy prudish puritanical square-toed straight-laced straightlaced strait-laced straitlaced tight-laced victorian
sample sentences
"my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
similar to