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

• 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。
• 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。
• PRISSY: Oh, Miss Scarlett, he's dead!
  碧西：噢，思嘉小姐，马死了。
• Hey, prissy pants, don't wet yourself. I'm right here.
  嗨，当心你的裤子，别弄湿了，我在这里。
• Pork, you and prissy crawl under the house and get the pigs out.
  波克，你和百里茜钻到屋基底下把猪赶出来。
• Bought her and her little wench, prissy.
  买了她和她的小女儿百里茜。
• 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。
• She had a prissy way of talking.
  她说起话来总是一本正经的样子。
• 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。
• He yelled just as loudly when she held him as when Prissy did.
  她抱着同百里茜抱着一样，他还是那么大声嚎哭。