| 单词 | prissy |
| 释义 | prissyWord family adverbprissilyadjectiveprissynounprissiness pris·sy /ˈprɪsi/ adjectiveadj informal OFFENDbehaving very correctly and easily shocked by anything rude – used to show disapproval 谨小慎微的；一本正经的；拘谨的，刻板的〔含贬义〕 —prissily adverbadv —prissiness noun [uncountableU] Examples from the Corpus prissy• She always irritated me - she was so prissy.• a look of prissy disapproval• Stepan Verkhovensky is prissy, frenchified, very feminine though not at all homosexual.• To argue would be prissy, he decided.• I suppose if Rupert had not been a bear he might have been considered prissy, like Noddy.• Art Lux and Vinny Pearson, the newspapers, the party bigwigs, the whole prissy state of Minnesota. (1800-1900) Probably from prim + sissy |
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