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prissy

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Adjective, Noun
 : 
pris=sy

OXFORD DICTIONARY

prissy, adj. (prissier, prissiest) prim, prudish.

Derivative
prissily adv. prissiness n.
Etymology
perh. f. PRIM + SISSY

THESAURUS

prissy

Victorian, chicken, effeminate, epicene, fastidious, finical, finicky, fussy, genteel, muliebrous, old-maidish, old-womanish, precious, priggish, prudish, puritanical, sissified, sissy, sissyish, soft, squeamish, strait-laced, straitlaced, stuffy, unmanly, womanish

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