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prissy(adjective) Excessively or affectedly prim and proper. Synonyms: priggish, prudish, square-toed, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian, puritanical, primUsage: A free-spirited party girl, I am the complete opposite of my prissy and well-mannered sister.
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She still drops a foreign word into her talk now and then, and there is still a subtle foreign flavor or fragrance about even her exactest English - and long may this abide! for it has for me a charm that is very pleasant. Sometimes her English is daintily prim and bookish and captivating.
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In the popular movies, doesn't the prissy girl always take off her glasses, let her hair down, and turn into some sort of wild succubus at the end?
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Luftmarque wrote:In the popular movies, doesn't the prissy girl always take off her glasses, let her hair down, and turn into some sort of wild succubus at the end? She does if the movie is to have any chance at the box office. Gentlemen prefer pert, not prissy...Prissy has too many syllables.
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ChildofTheKing wrote:
She still drops a foreign word into her talk now and then, and there is still a subtle foreign flavor or fragrance about even her exactest English - and long may this abide! for it has for me a charm that is very pleasant. Sometimes her English is daintily prim and bookish and captivating.
ChildofTheKing, I assume these are literary quotes that you cite in Word of the Day. Would you mind citing the source of these quotes? I enjoy reading them and am just curious as to the literature being referenced. Thank you! 
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capo403 wrote:ChildofTheKing wrote:
She still drops a foreign word into her talk now and then, and there is still a subtle foreign flavor or fragrance about even her exactest English - and long may this abide! for it has for me a charm that is very pleasant. Sometimes her English is daintily prim and bookish and captivating.
ChildofTheKing, I assume these are literary quotes that you cite in Word of the Day. Would you mind citing the source of these quotes? I enjoy reading them and am just curious as to the literature being referenced. Thank you! In Response To: Capo403 Sure, but I was simply following the leader.
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There was a "prissy" woman at the start of Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, she was even a teacher ~ but only lasted a minute or two.
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Is this word "prissy" being used for girls (female) only? 
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