What (who) is prissy - definition
FEMALE GIVEN NAME
Prisca; Prissy; Priscilla (singer); Prisca, Saint; Prisca (disambiguation)
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prissy
Perfect, beautiful, nothing out of place - an anti-compliment.
Emma is so prissy - look at her hair.
Emma is so prissy - look at her hair.
prissy
(prissier, prissiest)
If you say that someone is prissy, you are critical of them because they are very easily shocked by anything rude or bad. (INFORMAL)
I grew to dislike the people from my background-they were rather uptight and prissy.
= prim
ADJ [disapproval]
Wikipedia
Priscilla
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Priscilla is an English female given name adopted from Latin Prisca, derived from priscus. One suggestion is that it is intended to bestow long life on the bearer.
The name first appears in the New Testament either as Priscilla or Prisca, a female leader in early Christianity. The name also appears along with Maximilla, referring to two female leaders of the Montanist movement of the 2nd century AD.
The name appears in English literature in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1596), and was adopted as an English name by the Puritans in the 17th century.
Notable people and characters with the name include:
Pronunciation examples for prissy
1. I was either like the prissy Catholic school
Mabel Gray _ James Rigato _ Talks at Google
2. I was either like a prissy punk or like a dirtbag trailer park
Mabel Gray _ James Rigato _ Talks at Google
3. is a whole lot more important than prissy issues of playing
Principles of Applied Stupidity _ Justin Locke _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of prissy
1. What a prissy, watch what you say, tread on eggshells sad old country this has become.
2. Its just so mimsy, so trendy–prissy, so namby–pamby, so Andy–Pandy, this new Britishness.
3. The new Narnia film provoked a storm of prissy debate about C.
4. "I‘m not a prissy little girl." She also is no wallflower.
5. She is so potty–mouthed on stage, and then so genteel, almost prissy, in real life.