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Meanings of prissy in English

Exaggeratedly proper.

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Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted.

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Examples for "nice"
Examples for "nice"
1
I don't mean 'nice' the way she means 'nice,' either; don't worry.
Revolutionary Road
2
Conditions should be similar to yesterday and it's really nice, good ground.
The Guardian
3
Anyhow, the New Russians were soon given a nice present by Yeltsin.
The Guardian
4
Claudio was nice, available, honest, and did the work right on time.
Wired
5
It has been really nice the kind words that come my way.
News.com.au
1
Sweet and dainty were the damsels, alike in raiment and in face.
French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
2
And a jade platter of dainty food calls for a million coins.
Throne of Jade
3
It ripples in dainty dance, or tumbles down in cascades of joy.
Spirit and Music
4
In the open doorway she shone, looking the smallest of dainty things.
The Research Magnificent
5
He swung the dainty mite up in his arms and kissed her.
The Jungle Girl
1
Listen, none of us is 'zactly squeamish -know what I mean?
Anno Dracula
2
The intimate footage has both shocked and fascinated the squeamish American public.
The Irish Times
3
Hence, even the most squeamish should be able to enjoy the game.
The South African
4
If you're squeamish, we could just avoid the room with the body.
Shadow's son
5
She wasn't particularly squeamish, but wasn't interested in watching a dissection, either.
Star trek: terok nor: dawn of the eagles
1
Like everything else in the marquis's domain, the Dedicates' Keep was overnice.
The Lair of Bones
2
What was she trying to say with her dark hints and overnice scruples of a Puritan conscience?
Heralds of Empire / Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieu...
3
We are not overnice, Nicolo.
To Have and to Hold
4
Don't be overnice in your exactions; if she is even a fairly good cook, waitress, and laundress, you are indeed blessed among women.
The Complete Home
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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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common