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Prissy
Prissy meaning
Prim and fussy; too precise; overparticular. | Lacking masculine vigor; sissified; effeminate. | Well-mannered; well-behaved.
Example sentences (10)
Prissy then finds Rhett, and Scarlett begs him to take herself, Wade, Melanie, Beau, and Prissy to Tara.
Scarlett tells Prissy to go find Rhett, but Prissy is afraid to "go runnin' roun' in de dahk".
In 1995, actor Butterfly McQueen, who’d played the slave Prissy in “Gone with the Wind,” died in Augusta, Georgia, at age 84.
Two pets he dearly loved, Prissy and Buddy, and two grand fur babies, Baily and Remington.
When she takes the stand in court, she taunts the judge and barristers as if she were playing Liza Doolittle in a community-theater production of her earthiness achieves the same level of dullness as Edith’s prissy sanctimony.
On the right is an earlier interpretation of Prissy in Kevin Sullivan's 1985 film adaptation, in which the character isn't fleshed out as much.
He very quickly tried to normalise the situation and just told me I had to get with it and not be such a prissy and he didn’t have time to worry about my delicate feelings.
Thus, for example, we can see how “gender” went from a boring word that was a prissy way of saying “sex” to a leftist battleground, in a very short period of time.
The never-Trumpers have done nothing more than present themselves as a bunch of prissy, hoity-toity scolds who have nothing of value to say on the matter and are simply ignored and the never-trumpers can’t seem to figure that out.
Ivan’s prissy mask of respectability is soon demolished by his wife’s obsession with the White Sheik.