prissy

英 [ˈprɪsi]

美 [ˈprɪsi]

adj.  谨小慎微的; 大惊小怪的; 拘泥谨慎的

GRE

BNC.37177 / COCA.24749

牛津词典

adj.

• 谨小慎微的；大惊小怪的；拘泥谨慎的
  too careful to always behave correctly and appearing easily shocked by rude behaviour, etc.

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 大惊小怪的；一本正经的；谨小慎微的
  If you say that someone isprissy, you are critical of them because they are very easily shocked by anything rude or bad.
  1. I grew to dislike the people from my background — they were rather uptight and prissy.
     我变得讨厌和我有着同样出身背景的人——他们太保守、太一本正经了。

英英释义

adj

• excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
  1. too nice about his food to take to camp cooking
  2. so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow
  Synonym:daintyniceovernicesqueamish
• exaggeratedly proper
  1. my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts
  Synonym:priggishprimprudishpuritanicalsquare-toedstraitlacedstrait-lacedstraightlacedstraight-lacedtight-lacedvictorian

双语例句

• Virtue, until its very recent revival, has sounded old-fashioned or even prissy to our modern ears.
  美德，直到最近的复兴运动之前，一直都显得老旧，甚至在当代人耳里变得拘谨又烦人。
• Prissy rolled her eyes as she looked about her.
  百里茜转动着两只眼睛向四下里看了看。
• She sat upright and gave Prissy a push to speed her feet.
  她直着腰背坐起来，推了百里茜一把，叫她快跑。
• In the name of Heaven, Pa, three thousand! And you didn't need to buy Prissy!
  爸爸，我的天，三千哪！再说，你也用不着买百里茜呀！
• Get that foolish prissy to pack her little duds.
  让那个傻女孩百里茜把她的小衣服收拾一下。
• Now, the sight of so many buildings and people completed prissy's demoralization.
  此刻，这么多的建筑物和人进一步把她迷惑住了。
• She did recall a few things and she spoke to prissy rapidly, authority in her voice.
  只有几件事情她还记得，于是她用一种命令的语气急急对百利子吩咐着。
• I'll tell prissy to get an extra plate.
  我去多弄一个盘子。
• If someone had started giving me prissy hand signals as I started to swear last week my rage attack would have got a lot uglier.
  如果我开始骂人时，就有人开始给我做谨小慎微的手势，那么我愤怒的攻击言语会糟糕得多。
• She had a prissy way of talking.
  她说起话来总是一本正经的样子。