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prissier

a. (en-comparative of: prissy)

WordNet
prissy
  1. 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]

  2. 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]

  3. [also: prissiest, prissier]

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The white apron stretched taut over a comfortably expansive stomach, the flour-whitened hands and forearms, announced the arrival of the prissier Quenuble.