The meaning of Prim

adjective

Reserved, modest, and shy (typically used of a woman).

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A demure young lady

adjective

(esp. of women and girls) quiet and well behaved

Usage examples:

Two demure little girls sat near their mother.

adjective

Done in accordance with convention or etiquette; suitable for or constituting an official or important occasion.

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A formal dinner party

noun

An evening dress.

Usage examples:

Cocktail parties every night so the ladies can show off their formals

adjective

Having or showing characteristics considered to be characteristic of a governess, especially primness or strictness.

Usage examples:

Her governessy tone

adjective

Typical of or like a governess (= a woman, especially in the past, living with a family and teaching their children at home)

Usage examples:

This sounded so governessy., she plays the strict, governessy character wonderfully well.

adjective

Rather feeble and prim or affected.

Usage examples:

It's dry, bloodless, and emotionally disengaged; but most annoyingly of all, it's self-consciously …

adjective

Very formal and correct in behaviour, often in a way that is not sincere

Usage examples:

The chef had no patience with customers making niminy-piminy comments about his dishes., he adopts …

noun

Dated a woman who is not young and has not married

adjective

Self-righteously moralistic and superior.

Usage examples:

A priggish little pedant

adjective

Like a prig

Usage examples:

I found him priggish and cold.

adjective

Fussily and excessively respectable.

Usage examples:

A middle-class family with two prissy children

adjective

Denoting something that is truly what it is said or regarded to be; genuine.

Usage examples:

She's never had a proper job

adverb

Satisfactorily or correctly.

Usage examples:

My eyes were all blurry and i couldn't see proper

noun

The part of a church service that varies with the season or feast.

Usage examples:

We go to the high mass, with plainsong propers sung by the ritual choir

adjective

Having or revealing a tendency to be easily shocked by matters relating to sex or nudity; excessively concerned with sexual propriety.

Usage examples:

The prudish moral climate of the late 19th century

adjective

Easily shocked by rude things, especially anything relating to sex

Usage examples:

I don't consider myself prudish but i do think the sex scenes in the film were a bit excessive.

adjective

Having or displaying a very strict or censorious moral attitude towards self-indulgence or sex.

Usage examples:

His puritanical parents saw any kind of pleasure as the road to damnation

adjective

Behaving like a schoolmarm

Usage examples:

Stop being so schoolmarmish and bossy.

adjective

Having characteristics commonly associated with schoolmistresses, especially those of formality and briskness.

Usage examples:

Her crisp, rather schoolmistressy manner

adjective

Having old-fashioned and unchanging morals, especially relating to sexual matters

Usage examples:

The joke shocked her strait-laced parents.

adjective

(of a place) lacking fresh air or ventilation.

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A stuffy, overcrowded office

adjective

Formal, boring, and not modern

Usage examples:

A stuffy, arrogant man, the office gets so stuffy in the afternoon.

adjective

Relating to the reign of queen victoria.

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A victorian house

noun

A person who lived during the victorian period.

Usage examples:

The victorians had a passion for documenting, cataloguing and classifying the world around them

noun

A person from the australian state of victoria.

Usage examples:

The facility has taught thousands of victorians to use the internet