Crossword clues for prim
prim
- Punctilious, detailed 11, 13 or 17?
- Parking by the verge is proper
- Too proper
- Overly formal
- Rigidly formal
- Ever so proper
- Partner of proper
- Proper companion?
- Like Miss Manners
- Excessively proper
- __ and proper (strait-laced)
- Like a bluenose
- Highly proper
- Extremely proper
- Wanting everything just so
- Proper mate
- Overly decorous
- Excessively polite and restrained
- ____ and proper
- Unlikely to belch in public, say
- Terribly proper
- Stiffly decorous
- Rigidly ceremonious
- Particularly proper
- Nickname of Katniss' sister in "The Hunger Games"
- Neat and proper
- Most proper
- Like schoolmarms, stereotypically
- Like a pearl-clutcher
- Like a goody two-shoes
- Kat's sister in "The Hunger Games"
- High in starch?
- Formally prudish
- Far from freewheeling
- Affectedly formal
- Adhering to old-fashioned modesty
- A proper partner?
- 7 or 11, e.g
- "Proper" companion?
- -- and proper
- ___ and proper (demure)
- __ and proper (overly formal)
- Schoolmarmish
- Proper's partner
- Stiffly neat
- Victorian
- Strait-laced
- Prissy and proper
- Governessy
- Buttoned-up all the way
- Inhibited
- Perhaps a little too neat
- First part
- Overly stiff
- Not fond of dirty jokes, surely
- ___ and proper (straitlaced)
- Wearing a long dress and a collar buttoned to the top, maybe
- Overly demure
- Not at all loose
- Stiffly formal
- 7 or 11, e.g.
- Starchy
- Proper partner?
- Demure
- Decorous
- Prudish
- Shrub used for hedges
- Proper's companion
- Oh so proper
- Stiffly proper
- Very proper
- Kind of rose PAth?
- Stiffly precise
- Properly Victorian
- Staid
- Precise or prudish
- Stuffy
- Formally proper
- Fussy
- Overly proper
- Strait-laced Puritan leader outside
- Stiffly correct
- Fussy groom scratching bottom
- Fastidious setter's following promising leads
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Privet \Priv"et\, n. [Cf. Scot. privie, Prov. E. prim-print, primwort. Prob. for primet, and perh. named from being cut and trimmed. See, Prim,
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, and cf. Prime to prune, Prim, n., Prie, n.] (Bot.) An ornamental European shrub ( Ligustrum vulgare), much used in hedges; -- called also prim.
Egyptian privet. See Lawsonia.
Evergreen privet, a plant of the genus Rhamnus. See Alatern.
Mock privet, any one of several evergreen shrubs of the genus Phillyrea. They are from the Mediterranean region, and have been much cultivated for hedges and for fancifully clipped shrubberies.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s (v.) "to assume a formal, precise demeanor," perhaps from French prim "thin, small, delicate," from Old French prim "fine, delicate," from Latin primus "finest," literally "first" (see prime (adj.)). Later, "deck out, dress to effect" (1721). Attested as a noun from 1700. The adjective, the sole surviving sense, is from 1709. A cant word at first. Related: Primly; primness.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
1 prudish, straight-laced 2 formal; precise; affectedly neat or nice v
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1 (context dated English) To make affectedly precise or proper. 2 (context dated English) To dress or act smartly. Etymology 2
n. (context botany English) privet
WordNet
adj. affectedly dainty or refined [syn: dainty, mincing, niminy-piminy, twee]
exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts" [syn: priggish, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian]
Wikipedia
Prim may refer to:
'''Prim (Neckar) ''' is a river of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Usage examples of "prim".
Prim women wearing mantalets drew near peasants in panchos as their hero rode near.
They found that Acrefield Way was a straggling lane with Tudor cottages huddling matily between Georgian elegance and prim Victorian villas.
Her hair is silver blonde, she is tall, lithe, prim in appearance except for a mouth of monkeyish sensuality, and a bizarrely rapid, wide smile.
Murphy said, eyeing the prim and oh-so-proper postmistress who held his mail hostage.
Beeling was still afraid to let the inexperienced Primmer be his pilot.
There was a great deal of activity around the helicopter and he could distinguish Primmer standing to one side and directing the refueling operations.
Palace was what the Professor in one of his primmer moods would have referred to as a house of ill repute: the biggest, busiest, most red-plush-and-gilt-trim-bedecked whorehouse in Flatlands Portcity.
Professor in one of his primmer moods would have referred to as a house of ill repute: the biggest, busiest, most red-plush-and-gilt-trim-bedecked whorehouse in Flatlands Portcity.
So she took special care to appear even primmer and more unattractive than usual.
And maybe people began to be primmer when they were forgetting his influence.
Boston was rather primmer with just 4,000 illicit watering holes, but that was four times the number of legal saloons in the whole of Massachusetts before Prohibition.
Charlotte Treat, all of nine weeks clean, is trying to look primmer and primmer.
Mama would tell you that I am becoming prim and prosy, in fact, like my Uncle Brumby!
He sat with a posture of prim stiffness as though repeated maternal advice in his younger years concerning the desirability of good posture had rigidified his spine forever.
Ruby, neglected, with a jam-smeared face--the flustered maid, tousled, grubby, her frock gaping--the horrible hall, with its imitation-marble paper and staring linoleum--the prim, trivial, unaired, unused drawing-room, with its pathetic attempts at elegance-- Deb inwardly curled up at the sight of these things as things now belonging to the family.