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PRIGGISH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does priggish mean?
• PRIGGISH (adjective)
The adjective PRIGGISH has 1 sense:
1. exaggeratedly proper
Familiarity information: PRIGGISH used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Exaggeratedly proper
Synonyms:
priggish; prim; prissy; prudish; puritanical; square-toed; straight-laced; straightlaced; strait-laced; straitlaced; tight-laced; victorian
Context example:
my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts
Similar:
proper (marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness)
Derivation:
priggishness (exaggerated and arrogant properness)
Context examples
His manners, I think, you said are not to your taste? —priggish and parsonic?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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