prissy
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
prissy
adj 1: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't
approve of my miniskirts" [syn: {priggish}, {prim},
{prissy}, {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}, {prissy}, {squeamish}]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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