prissy

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who is prissy. colloquial,rare
    — 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure I really like Beau. He sure enjoys being admired & lusted over. He just lays back like a king & enjoys. What a prissy!
形容词 adj.
  1. Prim and fussy; too precise; overparticular. colloquial
    — She was a small, neat, rather prissy-looking girl with primly smooth brown hair and rimless glasses […]
  2. Lacking masculine vigor; sissified; effeminate. colloquial,derogatory,usually
    — I refused to wear this properly as it looked a bit prissy, so I butchly slung it over one shoulder.
  3. Well-mannered; well-behaved. colloquial
    — As women post en masse over the course of the day and long into the night, the mood changes: The daylight crowd tends to be prissier; the night crowd rowdier (and drunker); the late-night crowd surrealistic and unpredictable, made up of the extremely sleep deprived, from mothers of newborns to insomniacs in the midst of a divorce.

词形变化

prissier comparative prissiest superlative prissies plural

词汇关系

衍生词
priss prissily prissiness prisspot unprissy

词源

词源 1
1895, either an alteration of precise, blend of prim + sissy, or a blend of prim + fussy; first attested in a work of American writer Joel Chandler Harris.
词源 2
1895, either an alteration of precise, blend of prim + sissy, or a blend of prim + fussy; first attested in a work of American writer Joel Chandler Harris.
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