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If someone speaks or acts prissily, they are being very correct and very “proper”, and they are quick to look shocked at anything a bit rude, messy, or free — and the speaker does not like it. The word carries a small sting: we use it to show , not praise. It is the adverb from prissy, so it tells you how someone did a thing: she sat prissily; he said it prissily. You hear it more in stories and in slightly teasing talk than in careful formal writing. A polite person can still laugh and sit on the grass; someone who does it prissily makes a little show of being above all that.
假正經地、一板一眼地(帶貶意:太愛嫌髒、太容易被「不雅」嚇到)
組成From prissy + -ly (the ending that turns an adjective into an adverb).
同家族的字
- prissythe adjective this adverb comes from
- prissinessthe noun for this kind of behaviour
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
prissilyadv
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In a prissy manner; in a manner that is excessively prim or proper.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。