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priss
[ pris ]
noun
- someone who is excessively prim, proper, or fussy; an affectedly dainty or prissy person:
Call me a priss, but I think the relentless explicitness in this novel reduces the characters somehow.
verb (used without object)
- to act or move in a prim, fussy, or affectedly dainty way, like a priss:
I’m not one to primp and priss over myself in the bathroom.
At halftime I like to see the baton twirlers priss around in their itty-bitty costumes.
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In those hours beside Mark, Priss completed the transition from girl to woman.
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Priss read it over his shoulder, and afterwards she clung close to Joel.
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Joel was below, in the cabin with Priss, when his brother boarded the ship.
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“My dear Priss,” he said, in the elder-brother manner he affected toward her.
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Priss had planned to go ashore in the afternoon; but Mark dissuaded her.
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