Dictionary of erotic artists: painters, sculptors, printmakers, graphic designers and illustrators. Eugene C. Burt.
prim — adj Prim, priggish, prissy, prudish, puritanical, straitlaced, stuffy mean excessively concerned with what one regards as proper or right. Prim and priggish (see also COMPLACENT) both imply an excessive and conscious fastidiousness in manners and … New Dictionary of Synonyms
prissy — [adj] particular and fussy epicene, fastidious, finicky, genteel, goody goody*, goodytwo shoes*, overnice, pansified, persnickety, picky, precious, prim, prim and proper*, prudish, puritanical, sissified, sissy, squeamish, stickling, strait laced … New thesaurus
prissy — ► ADJECTIVE (prissier, prissiest) ▪ fussily respectable; prim. DERIVATIVES prissily adverb prissiness noun. ORIGIN perhaps a blend of PRIM(Cf. ↑primness) and SISSY(Cf. ↑ … English terms dictionary
prissy — 1895, first attested in Joel Chandler Harris, probably an alteration of PRECISE (Cf. precise) (q.v.), or a merger of prim and sissy … Etymology dictionary
prissy — *prim, priggish, prudish, puritanical, straitlaced, stuffy Analogous words: womanish, effeminate, ladylike, *female: finicky, fastidious, *nice, squeamish: scrupulous, punctilious, meticulous, *careful … New Dictionary of Synonyms
prissy — ☆ prissy [pris′ē ] adj. prissier, prissiest [prob. PR(IM) + (S)ISSY] Informal very prim or precise; fussy, prudish, etc. prissily adv. prissiness n … English World dictionary
prim — [adj] particular, fussy blue nose*, ceremonial, ceremonious, choosy, cleanly, conventional, correct, dapper*, decorous, demure, fastidious, formal, genteel, good, goody goody*, nice, nit picking*, orderly, overmodest, polite, precise, priggish,… … New thesaurus
prim — [[t]prɪm[/t]] adj. prim•mer, prim•mest, 1) formally precise or proper; prissy; prudish 2) stiffly neat 3) to draw up the mouth in an affectedly nice or precise way 4) to make prim, as in appearance 5) to draw (one s features) into a prim… … From formal English to slang
prim — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. precise, demure, formal, priggish; fussy, prudish. See affectation.Ant., casual. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. stiff, formal, precise, demure, decorous, nice, orderly, tidy, cleanly, trim, spruce,… … English dictionary for students
prim — [[t]prɪ̱m[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you describe someone as prim, you disapprove of them because they behave too correctly and are too easily shocked by anything rude. We tend to imagine that the Victorians were very prim and proper … English dictionary
