Crossword clues for prissy
prissy
- Proper to a fault
- Like a stereotypical schoolmarm
- Excessively proper
- Beyond proper
- Too proper
- Way too proper
- Scarlett's maid
- Excessively prim and proper
- Too, too punctilious
- Straitlaced and then some
- Straight-laced and then some
- Scarlett O'Hara's maid
- Proper and then some
- Overly prim and proper
- More than proper
- Beyond prim and proper
- Affectedly prim
- Too punctilious
- Affectedly nice
- Too, too proper
- Very prim and precise
- Overrefined
- Sissified
- Affectedly proper
- Like a fussbudget
- Overly precise
- Strait-laced
- Very prim or precise
- Exaggeratedly proper
- Fussy and prim
- Fussily respectable
- Popular ideas, say, abandoned by centrists in particular
- Prim and proper
- Overly proper
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1895, probably Southern U.S. dialect, first attested in Joel Chandler Harris, perhaps an alteration of precise (q.v.), or a merger of prim and sissy [OED]. Related: Prissily; prissiness.\n\n["]Then Mrs Blue Hen rumpled up her feathers and got mad with herself, and went to setting. I reckon that's what you call it. I've heard some call it 'setting' and others 'sitting.' Once, when I was courting, I spoke of a sitting hen, but the young lady said I was too prissy for anything."\n
\n"What is prissy?" asked Sweetest Susan.\n
\nMr. Rabbit shut his eyes and scratched his ear. Then he shook his head slowly.\n
\n"It's nothing but a girl's word," remarked Mrs. Meadows by way of explanation. "It means that somebody's trying hard to show off."\n
\n"I reckon that's so," said Mr. Rabbit, opening his eyes. He appeared to be much relieved.\n
[Joel Chandler Harris, "Mr. Rabbit at Home"] \n
Wiktionary
a. 1 excessively prim, proper, particular or fussy 2 well-mannered, well-behaved
WordNet
adj. exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts" [syn: priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian]
excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow" [syn: dainty, nice, overnice, squeamish]
Wikipedia
- Redirect Priscilla
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.