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Prissy vs Pissy - What's the difference?

prissy | pissy |

As adjectives the difference between prissy and pissy

is that prissy is excessively prim, proper, particular or fussy while pissy is covered in piss.

As a proper noun Prissy

is a diminutive of the female given name Priscilla.

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

    pissy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Covered in piss.
  • Resembling or smelling like piss.
  • Anal retentive]], [[whinge, whinging and pernickety.
    • Stop being pissy: you knew what I meant when I said "Don't touch the dial", but you prodded the dial with a fork.
  • (of rain) Weak and drizzly.
    • I wish these pissy rain showers would either build up into a storm or go away.

    Derived terms

    * pissily * pissiness