Usually means: Excessively proper, fussy, and fastidious.
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  1. prissy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prissy: Merriam-Webster
  3. prissy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. prissy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. prissy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. prissy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Prissy, prissy: Wordnik
  8. prissy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Prissy, prissy: Wiktionary
  10. prissy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. prissy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. prissy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. prissy: Dictionary.com
  14. prissy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. prissy: Rhymezone
  16. prissy: FreeDictionary.org
  17. prissy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. prissy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. prissy: Encyclopedia

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  1. prissy: A Word A Day

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  1. prissy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Prissy)

▸ adjective:  Excessively prim, proper, particular or fussy.
▸ adjective:  (usually derogatory) Very feminine or dressy.
▸ adjective:  Well-mannered, well-behaved.
▸ noun:  (rare) A person who is excessively prim, proper, particular or fussy.
▸ noun:  A diminutive of the female given name Priscilla.

Similar:
prim, priggish, prudish, straitlaced, dainty, fastidious, nice, overnice, straightlaced, tight-laced, more...

Opposite:
tomboyish, unladylike, unrefined

Types:
Priscilla, Priscilla-Anne, more...

Phrases:
Miss Prissy, more...

Adjectives:
little, poor, long, old, fainting, tearful, grateful, dear

Colors:
    pink,     lavender,     baby blue,     mint green,     peach, more...


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Similar:
prim, priggish, prudish, straitlaced, dainty, fastidious, nice, overnice, straightlaced, tight-laced, more...

Opposite:
tomboyish, unladylike, unrefined

Types:
Priscilla, Priscilla-Anne, more...

Phrases:
Miss Prissy, more...

Adjectives:
little, poor, long, old, fainting, tearful, grateful, dear

Colors:
    pink,     lavender,     baby blue,     mint green,     peach, more...



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