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prissy

C2 adj

prissy /ˈpɹɪsi/ nghĩa là cầu kỳ, khó tính

Các nghĩa

  1. cầu kỳ, khó tính

    Prim and fussy; too precise; overparticular.

    colloquial

    She was a small, neat, rather prissy-looking girl with primly smooth brown hair and rimless glasses […]

    European languages like English are just prissier about getting that pronoun in there.

  2. ẻo lả, ẻo lả như đàn bà

    Lacking masculine vigor; sissified; effeminate.

    colloquial · derogatory · usually

    I refused to wear this properly as it looked a bit prissy, so I butchly slung it over one shoulder.

    Mom was always pushing her only daughter to become some kind of prissy feminine beauty.

    A pink can held shaving gel with a prissy, feminine smell.

  3. lễ phép, ngoan ngoãn

    Well-mannered; well-behaved.

    colloquial

    You drive like one of those prissy ladies at lunch who won't take the last cookie in case somebody else wants it.

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