Prim and fussy; too precise; overparticular.
She was a small, neat, rather prissy-looking girl with primly smooth brown hair and rimless glasses
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(usually, _, derogatory) Lacking masculine vigor; sissified; effeminate.
As Nathanial Mayweather, heir to the Mayweather Hotel fortune, Elliott doesn’t disdain the hoi polloi so much as he considers everyone, even the faculty and headmaster at the prissiest private school in existence, to be part of it.
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Well-mannered; well-behaved.
European languages like English are just prissier about getting that pronoun in there.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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