prissy• She always irritated me - she was so prissy.• a look of prissy disapproval• Stepan Verkhovensky is prissy, frenchified, very feminine though not at all homosexual.• To argue would be prissy, he decided.• I suppose if Rupert had not been a bear he might have been considered prissy, like Noddy.• Art Lux and Vinny Pearson, the newspapers, the party bigwigs, the whole prissy state of Minnesota.