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Meanings of prissy in English

Exaggeratedly proper.

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Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted.

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Usage of prissy in English
1
I heard paper rustle, then Dew continued in his prissy, high voice.
Bones of the Lost
2
So thanks for your prissy little reminder but I already paid, right?
The Irish Times
3
When he spoke, he sounded truly prissy, enunciating vowels for utmost effect.
Mysterious Skin
4
The approach is latter-day Jane Austen, but prissy and without the style.
The Irish Times
5
A prissy looking listing agent was waiting, tapping his watch in admonition.
Secret of the seventh son
6
Fantail skirts and flared hemlines make a change from prissy pencil skirts.
The Irish Times
7
You are snotty and overly precise, but an essentially correct prissy bitch.
An ordinary decent criminal
8
And not being prissy about finding such things below your pay grade.
A journey: my political life
9
But on worlds like Lalonde we can't afford your prissy theological debates.
The Reality Dysfunction
10
You couldn't go around acting all prissy and never trying anything new.
The frog princess
11
The shopkeeper rang them up silently, his lips in a prissy pucker.
The Lying Game
12
It's your own goddamn fault for going to that prissy redneck school.
Full circle
13
You don't have to exacerbate a situation because you're feelin' prissy.
Is it just me?: or is it nuts out there?
14
But another voice, higher and almost prissy, argued, We can't try again now.
Boneshaker
15
Long-haired and prissy and so pretty she could have played young Dejah Thoris.
The brief wondrous life of oscar wao
16
And just because that prissy -Ida-ohwell, let's not get on that subject.
Mildred Pierce
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Prissy across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common