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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. exaggeratedly proper;
- Example: "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
[syn: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian]

2. excessively fastidious and easily disgusted;
- Example: "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"
- Example: "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"
[syn: dainty, nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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