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Prissy vs Priggish - What's the difference?

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Prissy is a synonym of priggish.


As adjectives the difference between prissy and priggish

is that prissy is excessively prim, proper, particular or fussy while priggish is like a prig.

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

    priggish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Like a prig.

    • Synonyms

    * (like a prig) prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical

    Derived terms

    * priggishly * priggishness