(informal, disapproving) too careful to always behave correctly and appearing easily shocked by rude behaviour, etc:
She was a prissy little girl. * Children's clothes that are attractive without being prissy.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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In this entry, prissy is tagged as adjective.
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