prissy
/ˈprɪsi/
adjective
- Excessively proper, fussy, or concerned with behaving in a correct or refined way, often in a way that seems annoying or silly.
- The new manager is too prissy about small details like how paper clips are arranged.
- My aunt is so prissy that she won't let anyone wear shoes inside her house.
- He gave a prissy little sniff and said the food wasn't fancy enough for him.
- Overly neat, tidy, or dainty in appearance, often in a way that seems affected or prim.
- The room was decorated in a prissy style with lace doilies and tiny porcelain figurines.
- Her prissy handwriting was so perfectly looped it looked like a font.
- He refused to wear the prissy bow tie his mother had picked out.