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Proper and then some
Answer for the clue "Proper and then some ", 6 letters:
prissy
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Word definitions for prissy in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a look of prissy disapproval ▪ She always irritated me - she was so prissy . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Art Lux and Vinny Pearson, the newspapers, the party bigwigs, the whole prissy state of Minnesota. ▪ I suppose if ...
Usage examples of prissy.
Standing like a child, she let Maria and her other maid, Prissy, strip off her damp, muddy clothes.
Where Maria was plump and gentle, Prissy was lively and never slow to speak her mind.
Her two maidservants settled on pallets on the floor alongside Prissy and Maria.
She ordered Prissy to check behind and under benches and tables, though it was hard to imagine how the book could be there.
Renald just wrapped a cloth around his waist as Maria, Prissy, and Josce hurried in with platters of food and jugs of ale.
She was half out of bed, when there was a knock on the door and Prissy came in with her hair in a plait.
And Prissy raised hers then, too, and the two began to circle each other like hardened cage fighters.
Not that Prissy would admit to that out loud where someone could hear her.
Boyd, what with the leech syndrome and everything, she did know that Prissy could get stuck that way for a very long time.
He went to Prissy so often because she was just plain damned good in bed.
She somehow looked different from the Prissy he had been calling on and bedding for all of two months.
You will keep your mind and your hands off Prissy if you know what is good for you.
Incidentally, my friend, I hope this is not how you and Prissy talked about me before I came within earshot on my arrival.
Even when she left, she knew that she no longer wanted those two separate beings to live forever apart in her body: Prissy and Priscilla.
Miss Priscilla Wentworth had not returned to Denton Manor any more than Prissy had returned to Denbridge village.