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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
prissy
1. 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, squeamish
• Similar to:
fastidious
• Derivationally related forms:
squeamishness (for: squeamish)
2. exaggeratedly proper
- my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts
• Syn:
priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, square-toed,
straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian
• Similar to:
proper
• Derivationally related forms:
puritan (for: puritanical), prudishness (for: prudish), primness (for: prim), priggishness (for: priggish)
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