prissy

See also Prissy

English

Etymology

1895, either an alteration of precise, or blend of prim and sissy; first attested in American writer Joel Chandler Harris.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪsi

Adjective

prissy (comparative prissier, superlative prissiest)

1. excessively prim, proper, particular or fussy
   • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club Cabin Boy[1]

     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.

2. well-mannered, well-behaved

Derived terms

• priss

Translations

excessively prim, proper, particular or fussy

• Czech: cimprlich (cs)
• Finnish: sievistelevä
• German: zimperlich (de)

• Greek: σεμνότυφος (el) (semnótyfos) m 
• Russian: жеманный (ru) (žemánnyj)  (finical), чопорный (ru) (čópornyj)  (prim)

well-behaved, well-mannered

• Russian: благонравный (ru) (blagonrávnyj) 

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