prissy

• Qualifie une personne excessivement conventionnelle, pointilleuse ou préoccupée par un comportement correct et réservé, souvent d'une manière qui semble agaçante ou vieux jeu.

Describes a person who is excessively proper, fussy, or concerned with behaving in a correct or modest manner, often in a way that seems annoying or old-fashioned.

1. Exaggeratedly properC1informal

   Behaving in an overly correct, formal, or fussy manner, often to the point of being annoying.

   d'une pruderie excessive

   • She was too prissy to join the mud fight.
   • His prissy attitude made him unpopular at the party.
   • Don't be so prissy about the seating arrangement.

   Synonymesfussygoody-goodyold-maidishprimproperprudishpuritanicalstrait-lacedstuffyuptight

   Antonymescarelesscasualinformalrelaxedslovenly

2. Excessively fastidiousC1informal

   Being overly concerned with cleanliness, neatness, or propriety, and easily disgusted by things considered messy or improper.

   d'une pruderie excessive

   • He's so prissy he won't eat anything that's touched another food on the plate.
   • Her prissy nature meant she always carried hand sanitizer.
   • The prissy child refused to touch the clay.

   Synonymesfinickyfussyparticularprimproperprudishsqueamishuptight

   Antonymescarelessdisheveledmessyslipshodslouchyslovenlyunkemptuntidy