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Prissy vs Stuffy - What's the difference?

prissy | stuffy |

As a proper noun prissy

is a diminutive of the female given name priscilla.

As an adjective stuffy is

poorly ventilated; partially plugged.

As a noun stuffy is

(us|canada|colloquial|often|childish) a stuffed animal or other plush toy.

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

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    stuffy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.
  • I can't smell very well today – I have a stuffy nose.
    Let's go outside – it's getting stuffy in here.
  • Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
  • Angry and obstinate; sulky.
  • Boring, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional.
  • The stuffy professor droned on as the class lost interest.

    Noun

    (stuffies)
  • (US, Canada, colloquial, often, childish) A stuffed animal or other plush toy.
  • Derived terms

    * stuffily * stuffiness