Prissy

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  prissy
       adj 1: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't
              approve of my miniskirts" [syn: {priggish}, {prim}, {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}, {squeamish}]
       [also: {prissiest}, {prissier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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