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prissyadjective informal + disapprovinghaving or showing the annoying attitude of people who care too much about dressing and behaving properly and who are easily upset by other people's behavior, language, etc.She was too prissy to wear jeans. a prissy do-gooder niminy-piminy, primchoosy(or choosey), dainty, delicate, demanding, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, fussbudgety, fussy, nice, old-maidish, particular, pernickety(chiefly British), persnickety, pickyhyperfastidious, overdemanding, ultrafastidiousdiscerning, discriminating, selectiveinsightful, knowledgeablecaptious, carping, caviling(or cavilling), critical, faultfinding, hypercritical, overcriticalcareful, meticulous, painstaking, punctilious, scrupulousqueasy(also queazy), squeamishpeevish, petulant, prickly, touchy affable, breezy, carefree, devil-may-care, happy-go-lucky, lackadaisical, laid-back, low-pressure, relaxedflexible, lax, looselenient, permissiveuncriticalindiscriminating, undiscriminatingundemanding, unfastidious, unfussy in 1894 |