- 1假正經的、過分講究的（帶貶意：太愛嫌髒、太容易被「不雅」嚇到）
Someone prissy is very correct in manners, dress, or speech, and is easily shocked by anything rude, messy, or too free — and we say it to show we do not admire that. It is not the same as polite. Polite people can still laugh and get a little dirty; a prissy person makes a drama of being above all that. The word is informal, a bit old-fashioned, and mostly American in feel. Writers first printed it in 1895, in a book by the American writer Joel Chandler Harris. Scholars do not all agree where it came from: it may be a twist of precise, or a blend of prim and sissy, or of prim and . You will hear it of people, of little habits, sometimes of a too-neat style. Calling someone prissy is a soft insult.
組成First recorded in 1895, in a work of American writer Joel Chandler Harris. It may be an alteration of precise, a blend of prim + sissy, or a blend of prim + fussy; scholars do not agree.
同家族的字
- prissilythe adverb
- prissinessthe noun for this quality
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
Prissyname
- 1
A diminutive of the female given name Priscilla.
prissyadj/ˈpɹɪsi/
- 1
Prim and fussy; too precise; overparticular.
- She was a small, neat, rather prissy-looking girl with primly smooth brown hair and rimless glasses […]
- As Nathanial Mayweather, heir to the Mayweather Hotel fortune, Elliott doesn’t disdain the hoi polloi so much as he considers everyone, even the faculty and headmaster at the prissiest private school in existence, to be part of it.
- 2
derogatoryLacking masculine vigor; sissified; effeminate.
- I refused to wear this properly as it looked a bit prissy, so I butchly slung it over one shoulder.
- Mom was always pushing her only daughter to become some kind of prissy feminine beauty.
- 3
Well-mannered; well-behaved.
- As women post en masse over the course of the day and long into the night, the mood changes: The daylight crowd tends to be prissier; the night crowd rowdier (and drunker); the late-night crowd surrealistic and unpredictable, made up of the extremely sleep deprived, from mothers of newborns to insomniacs in the midst of a divorce.
- You drive like one of those prissy ladies at lunch who won't take the last cookie in case somebody else wants it.
prissynoun/ˈpɹɪsi/
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rareA person who is prissy.
- 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure I really like Beau. He sure enjoys being admired & lusted over. He just lays back like a king & enjoys. What a prissy!
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