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Starchy sort
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priss
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Word definitions for priss in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context informal English) A prissy person vb. To dress or behave in a prissy manner
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1914, Southern U.S., back-formation from prissy .
Usage examples of priss.
Yet he continued his occasional game of billiards with Priss and when the two met they behaved with complete propriety.
She left her diary to Miss Priss, who left it to her eldest daughter, who left it to her only daughter, Prissy Cynara Brown.
Priss turned to the billiard table, looking first at it, then back at Bloom.
Priss has won two Nobel Prizes for sloshing around a few equations, but what has he done with it?
Pay me, as you’d pay anyone, and I’ll seek Peter Priss to the end of the lands and purlieus for you.