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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) prissy
excessively proper; affectedly correct; prim.

Etymology: (1890–95, Amer.; b.

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1. (adj) priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian
exaggeratedly proper
"my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"

2. (adj) dainty, nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish
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"

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