prissy
Plural: prissies
Adjective Satellite
- exaggeratedly proper
- excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
Adj
- Prim and fussy; too precise; over-particular.
- Lacking masculine vigor; sissified; effeminate.
- Well-mannered; well-behaved.
Noun
- An individual who is excessively proper or fastidious in behavior.
- A person who is prissy.
Adjective
- Excessively or affectedly proper, easily shocked, or fastidious.
Examples
- His prissy refusal to use any two-letter words made winning Scrabble much harder.
- That prissy opponent always insisted on using a physical dictionary for every single play.
Origin / Etymology
1895, either an alteration of precise, blend of prim + sissy, first attested in a work of American writer Joel Chandler Harris.
Synonyms
dainty, nice, overnice, priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, squeamish, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian
Scrabble Score: 11
prissy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordprissy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
prissy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary