On this disturbingly upbeat new record, mimsy acoustic numbers such as Lonely Girls drown the victim in sentiment, and when Richard Oakes does plug in his guitars they sound anaemically scratchy.
What thrills about Russell's work now is this feeling of a very singular vision: He's a mimsy folkie who let a DJ save his life one night and never looked back, a post-minimalist composer who was put through the technological wringer.
Now, to someone who can't understand the concept of going into a record shop to buy a record (rather than some records), four may seem a bit on the mimsy side.
It's dry, bloodless, and emotionally disengaged; but most annoyingly of all, it's self-consciously ‘literary’ in such a mimsy, precious way.
If you're up for an all-day bi-coastal eating beano, you won't want to start with a mimsy croissant-type breakfast.
The type and design is a bit mimsy and the paintings tend to be dated before the end of the nineteenth century.
Not for us the footling ZT 120, with its mimsy 1.8 engine, nor even the ZT 180, with its utterly yawnsome 2.5-litre V6.
Synonyms
prim and proper, prim, proper, prudish, priggish, puritanical, moralistic, prissy, niminy-piminy, shockable, victorian, old-maidish, schoolmistressy, schoolmarmish, governessy