Definition of "prissy"
prissy
adjective
comparative prissier, superlative prissiest
Excessively prim, proper, particular or fussy.
Quotations
(usually derogatory) Very feminine or dressy.
Quotations
I love pretty shoes that are utterly gorgeous and totally impractical—what I call prissy shoes. […] I would love it if I could wear my prissy shoes for my whole life's journey — no stones on my path, no difficult cracks or crevices; just nice, smooth, straight highways of life.
2014, Linda Grabeman, No Prissy Shoes
I had grown up a rather prissy kind of guy. I was never the rough-and-tumble, plastic-gun-toting stereotype of a boy. I preferred neat and orderly and clean and bathed to scattered and strewn and grass-stained and smudged. Clothes pressed, shoes shined. Hair combed, activities quiet.
2015, David H. Brantley, Duct Tape Won’T Stick to a Leaky Ostomy Bag
Quotations
As women post en masse over the course of the day and long into the night, the mood changes: The daylight crowd tends to be prissier; the night crowd rowdier (and drunker); the late-night crowd surrealistic and unpredictable, made up of the extremely sleep deprived, from mothers of newborns to insomniacs in the midst of a divorce.
2007, Steven Levy, The Best of Technology Writing 2007, page 48
I may – I forget now – have suffixed it slightly; with a well-rounded 'Stuff you!' or 'But my car, you bastard!'. But then again, surely not. This was my boss, after all. More likely I would have said something more prissy, like 'Oh, really It may be only a car to you,' etc., before dissolving, which was what I actually did, into a flurry of impotent fury and tears.
2014, Lynne Barrett-Lee, One Day Someday
noun
plural prissies
(rare) A person who is excessively prim, proper, particular or fussy.