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Definition: Prissy |
PrissyAdjective1. Exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts". 2. Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Prissy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be ancient". |
Date "prissy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references) |
Synonyms: PrissySynonyms: dainty (adj), nice (adj), overnice (adj), priggish (adj), prim (adj), prudish (adj), puritanical (adj), square-toed (adj), squeamish (adj), straightlaced (adj), straitlaced (adj), tight-laced (adj), victorian (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Prissy |
| English words defined with "prissy": arid ♦ desiccate, desiccated ♦ primly, prissily. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And the next time you address me common, I will put you on your prissy little ass. (Young Guns II; writing credit: John Fusco) | |
Lyrics | From, prissy bitches to hoes that do porno (Livin' It Up; performing artist: Ja Rule) | |
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| "Prissy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Prissy" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 24 | 71,196 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "Prissy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be ancient". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Prissy." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Cilla | Female | N/A | Priscilla |
| Scilla | Female | N/A | Priscilla |
| Prisca | Female | Ancient Roman | N/A |
| Priscilla | Female | Ancient Roman | Prisca |
| Prisca | Female | Biblical | N/A |
| Priscilla | Female | Biblical | Prisca |
| Pris | Female | English | Priscilla |
| Priscilla | Female | English | Prisca |
| Prissy | Female | English | Priscilla |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
prissy | 39 |
prissy sissy | 24 |
prissy sissies | 7 |
miss prissy | 6 |
alchemy prissy | 6 |
prissy story | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "prissy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متعففة, متخنث (effeminate), نيق (dainty, fidgety, finical, finicky, fussy, precise, sticky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | лъжеморален, превзет (affected, cute, flamboyant, fussy, glossy, histrionic, lackadaisical, mannered, mincing, minikin, namby-pamby, nice, niminy-piminy, old-maidish, pansy, precious, pretentious, pretty, pretty-pretty, priggish, prim, pseudo, recherche, schoolmistressy, sidy, snobbish, stuffy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مرتب (Intrinsic, Kilter, Methodic, Neat, Ordered, Orderly, Regular, Shipshape, Straight, Tidy, Trim), مردیاجوان زن صفت , تروتمیز (Shipshape, Trig, Trim), اراسته (Brisk, Decent, Decorous, Natty, Politic, Spruce, Sprucy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pointilleux (precise, precisian), efféminé, bégueule (prude, prudish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zimperlich (demure, finicky, mincing, modest, nervous, prudish, puling, soft, squeamish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λεπτεπίλεπτοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קפ"ן (careful, martinet, observant, pedant, pernickety, stickler, strict), טרזן (coxcomb, fop, swell, toff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | finomkodó (genteel, kid-glove, mealy mouthed, mealy-mouthed, mincing, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, ornate, proper), pedánsan precíz, keresett (be in demand, in demand, mannered, sought, to be in request, wanted), fontoskodó (bumptious, bustling, busybody, consequential, fussy, officious, owlish, pedant, pompous, pragmatic, pragmatical, self-important, to put on a consequential air). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | affettato (affected, assumed, Dandy, euphuistic, finical, foppish, genteel, labored, laboured, mincing, niminy-piminy, pretty-pretty, prim, sliced). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | issypray fresco (bonny, buxom, caller, chilly, cool, crisp, finicky, fresh, good, new, recent, sweet), cheio de luxo. (various references) pedant (academic, academical, bookish, captious, censorious, dryasdust, far fetched, inkhorn, milliner, opinioned, pedant, pedantic, pernickety, precise, precisian, prig, priggish, priggishly, prolix, punctilious, scholastic). (various references) чопорный (buckram, donnish, niminy-piminy, prim, prim and proper, stand offish, starchy, strait-laced), благонравный (well-behaved). (various references) remilgado (demure, mincing, old-maidish, prim, prude, squeamish), melindroso (choosey, choosy, dainty, finicky, fussy, modest, nice, prudish, squeamish). (various references) kılı kırk yaran (captious, choosy, finical, finicking, finicky, hairsplitting, meticulous, pettifogging, quibbling, wiredrawn), iffetli geçinen, faziletli geçinen, aşırı titiz (prim and proper, punctilious, queasy, splenetic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Prissy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Perissa, pisssh, pissy, Pizzy, Poissy, presay, Pressly, pressy, prezzy, Priesca, Priess, prisci, prises, prisk, priss, Prisse, prissey, prizy, prizzi, prossie, prossy, roissy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "prissy" (pronounced pri"sē) |
| 3 | -i" s ē | missy, sissy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-p-r-s-s-y" | |
-1 letter: priss, spiry. | |
-2 letters: piss, psis, rips, sips, sirs, spry, sris, yips. | |
-3 letters: pis, pry, psi, rip, sip, sir, sis, spy, sri, yip. | |
-4 letters: is, pi, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-p-r-s-s-y" | |
+1 letter: pyrosis. | |
+2 letters: gossipry, isospory, prissily, sparsity, syrphids, trypsins. | |
+3 letters: caryopsis, paralysis, pyrolysis, pyrosises, shipyards, sophistry, spagyrics, syrphians. | |
+4 letters: dispensary, dysphorias, dysprosium, erysipelas, hydropsies, isopropyls, paraphysis, peristyles, pityriases, pityriasis, pressingly, promissory, redisplays, spinsterly, spirogyras, spuriously, suretyship, sympatries, syncarpies. | |
+5 letters: aepyornises, antipyreses, antipyresis, caryopsides, cryoscopies, dispersedly, dysprosiums, dystrophies, gypsiferous, hypocorisms, hypocrisies, panegyrists, permissibly, persistency, physiatrist, polyhistors, polymerises, polymerisms, presbyopias, presbyopics, pricelessly, proselytise, proselytism, proteolysis, pyranosides, pyrolusites, responsibly, sperrylites, supervisory, suppository, suretyships, symposiarch, typescripts. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 69 73 73 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. .. ... ... -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01101001 01110011 01110011 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r i s s y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0069 0073 0073 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)508475858591 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Derived from 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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