Prissy

Adjective

 * 1) excessively prim, proper, particular or fussy

Derived terms

 * priss

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
1895, either an alteration of precise:, or ; first attested in American writer.

Translations

 * Finnish: sievistelevä
 * Greek: σεμνότυφος


 * Russian: