prissy

How To Use prissy In A Sentence

• Prissy, looking up, saw her and her mouth opened to yell.
• And he flatters the mother and she kind of gets prissy and he talks her into going for a ride in the sports car.
• Shepherd dedicated herself to morphing "from a 'prissy' woman who never exercised to the Guinness Book of World Records 'oldest female bodybuilder," ABC News reports. Ernestine Shepherd, 74-Year-Old Bodybuilder, Inspires, Teaches Fitness (VIDEO)
• But explorers would not eat prissy little candy canes and peanut brittle when they could tear into a hamburger, would they?
• The look was schoolmarm prissy, but sexy and was every grown up boy's fantasy of a saucy school mistress or strict female dominant leader like Margaret Thatcher.
• Think how much better it is that the opposite: prissy, priggish public expression and sinning like mad privately.
• Mistress Betty promised to send her young friends sets of silk for their embroidery (and kept her word); she presented Prissy with her enamel snuff-box, bearing an exact representation of that ugly building of St. James's; and Fiddy with her "equipage" -- scissors, tablets, and all, chased and wreathed with tiny pastorals, shepherds reclining and piping on sylvan banks, and shepherds and shepherdesses dancing on velvet lawns. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
• The colours weren't girlie or prissy, but unusual and beautiful, with unexpected combinations of salmon pink, cream and peat brown, jade and raspberry, or orange and baby blue.
• Yas'm, Ah sho is, " Prissy agreed fervently.
• There was nothing prissy at all about another starter which consisted of a pile of rocket, aubergine purée, fried artichokes slices, shavings of Parmesan and basil on an agreeably chewy slice of toasted olive oil bread.