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Define the word prissy

prissy
     adj 1: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't
            approve of my miniskirts" [syn: priggish, prim, prudish,
             puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced,
             straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian]
     2: excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about
        his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would
        only touch the toilet handle with his elbow" [syn: dainty,
         nice, overnice, squeamish]
     [also: prissiest, prissier]

26 Moby Thesaurus words for "prissy":
   Victorian, chicken, effeminate, epicene, fastidious, finical,
   finicky, fussy, genteel, muliebrous, old-maidish, old-womanish,
   precious, priggish, prudish, puritanical, sissified, sissy,
   sissyish, soft, squeamish, strait-laced, straitlaced, stuffy,
   unmanly, womanish