prissy in English

adjective
1
fussily and excessively respectable.
her prissy mother
synonyms:prudishpriggishprimprim and properstrait-lacedVictorianold-maidishschoolmarmishstarchy

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1. Prissy, go pack my things.

2. Prissy knew all about midwifery.

3. Prissy burst into tears and incoherent mumblings: " Poke!

4. Quiet, contained, a trifle prissy-but unfailingly polite.

5. " Yas'm, Ah sho is, " Prissy agreed fervently.

6. To argue would be prissy, he decided.

7. She was a prissy little girl.

8. And so I'm gwine give you my Prissy fo'yo'own maid. ".

9. 13 Bought her and her little wench, Prissy.

10. She always irritated me - she was so prissy.

11. Bought her and her little wench, Prissy.

12. " Yas 'm,'said Prissy, expanding with importance.

13. Thank God, Prissy knew all about midwifery.

14. Prissy was sitting on the bottom step in the hall, panting.

15. Children's clothes that are attractive without being prissy.

16. Scarlett glared at her and Prissy shrank back, trying to pull loose.

17. That's like Thomas Magnum threatening that little prissy guy with the mustache.

18. " Yas'm,'said Prissy and , turning, sauntered down the walk at snail's gait.

19. Stepan Verkhovensky is prissy, frenchified, very feminine though not at all homosexual.

20. Many of these prissy Curbings of Michelangelo are still there

21. " You're as slow as molasses in January,'snapped Scarlett as Prissy opened the gate.

22. If she thought of these things, she'd begin to scream and bawl like Prissy.

23. " It's a ghos ', " moaned Prissy, writhing face down on the wagon boards.

24. Prissy, looking up, saw her and her mouth opened to yell.

25. Then after an indeterminate dark interval , Prissy was beside her, chattering on in a pleased way.

26. Prissy produced the sugar - tit, given her that morning by Mammy, and the baby's wails subsided.

27. So Scarlett sent Prissy down to warm up the breakfast hominy and feed him.

28. Prissy began to bawl suddenly, loudly, the sound adding to Scarlett's own uneasiness.

29. 154, […] the literary world […] is a world so prissy, maiden-Auntish; so class-bound;

30. Art Lux and Vinny Pearson, the newspapers, the party bigwigs, the whole prissy state of Minnesota.

31. When twilight and Prissy, scurrying like a black wraith, lit a lamp, Melanie became weaker.

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33. Prissy climbed reluctantly from the wagon with many groans and timorously followed Scarlett up the avenue.

34. It's certainly not for the prissy of nature but then the original novel was also considered at the time rather racy.

35. "Surely the whole point of The Heat's dynamic in the first place is that Sandra Bullock's character is skinny and prissy and uptight and Melissa McCarthy's character is bigger and Bolshier …