adjective
- excessively concerned with being proper, correct, or refined; overly prim or fastidious
Usage: often disapproving
Examples
- She was too prissy to eat with her hands at the barbecue.
- His prissy attitude made him unpopular with his classmates.
- Don’t be so prissy about getting a little dirt on your clothes.
- The prissy waiter corrected our pronunciation of every menu item.
- She gave a prissy little sniff when she saw the messy room.
- He’s too prissy to go camping without his hair gel and cologne.