Meaning & use
prissy
Excessively concerned with proper, neat, or polite behavior, often in an annoying way.
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Her prissy insistence on perfect table manners made family dinners feel tense.
He was too prissy to join the mud run with the rest of the team.
A note on using this word
Prissy is informal and mildly critical, suggesting someone is overly fussy about small details or manners.
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Words with an opposite meaning
easygoingrelaxed
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