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Diva vs Prissy - What's the difference?

diva | prissy |

As a noun diva

is divan, couch.

As a proper noun prissy is

a diminutive of the female given name priscilla.

diva

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Any female celebrity, usually a well known singer or actress.
  • A person who may be considered or who considers herself (or by extension himself) much more important than others, has high expectations of others and who is extremely demanding and fussy when it comes to personal privileges.

    • Derived terms

    * diva-ish''

    References

    * * [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=diva&searchmode=none]

    Anagrams

    * English nouns with irregular plurals ----

    prissy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • excessively prim, proper, particular or fussy
  • * 1949 , Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister
    • She was a small, neat, rather prissy -looking girl with primly smooth brown hair and rimless glasses
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club Cabin Boy [http://www.avclub.com/articles/cabin-boy,71269/]
    • As Nathanial Mayweather, heir to the Mayweather Hotel fortune, Elliott doesn’t disdain the hoi polloi so much as he considers everyone, even the faculty and headmaster at the prissiest private school in existence, to be part of it.
  • well-mannered, well-behaved

    • Derived terms

    * priss

    References