Priss

In the series, the southerners are portrayed as wussy appeasers and the South Carolina representative, Edward Rutledge, is especially played as a priss which is somehow gratifying after campaigns in which the South is portrayed as the home of martial and American values. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It was no wonder that even Miss Pole Stuck Up Her Ass, priss of a boss of hers wanted Rickie Ross so bad. ❋ Elle (2011)

I have to admit I am a bit of a priss when it comes to swearing and profanities. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The words he spoke were gone forever, a memory only to those who heard them, never to fly back into his face after going viral on him, or bollocks-up his career prospects due to their nonconformity to the range of acceptable ideas, and he was well beyond the reach of Bowdler and the priss who Gribbenized Huckleberry Finn. ❋ TimChambers (2011)

The movie turns broad and slightly smarmy when it portrays the conventioneers as hapless Babbitts, and overstresses Tim's status as a hick or, worse still, a priss. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

Her perfect priss of a big sister, her married big sister, had a boyfriend! ❋ Jennifer Weiner (2010)

My inner priss reared her ugly head, chastising them with Oh, come on! ❋ Unknown (2008)

The only idea I can come up with is bombing CanWest-Global's headquarters, but some priss told me that that's like, illegal or something. ❋ Lindsay Stewart (2009)

So, if Smurfette went head-to-varnished-head in a priss-versus-skank smackdown with one of the Bratz gang, who would win? jess Said, ❋ Unknown (2007)

I stood by her through the leers and sniggers, casting dirty looks at her tormentors, and maybe the fact that I was considered a bit of a priss actually helped, because by the end of the week, people were clearly getting bored with humiliating her. ❋ Megan McAndrew (2009)

In fact, Katy's not a character I see a lot of in YA fiction; we don't get a whole lot of the superior priss type from the inside out in a sympathetic way--did you know right from the start that you wanted to deal with a character like that in contrast to the more chaotic punk scene? ❋ Unknown (2009)

That priss sickens me, sitting there with her skinny legs crossed like a two-bit supermodel. ❋ Andrew Oye (2009)

Ellie Dupuis East Bridgewater, Massachusetts Whom is an archaic pronoun, pedantic and fussy, but it's occasionally dusted off and deployed to priss up a sentence. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Of course, my inner priss-priss culls through popular culture from the 60s, 70s and 80s and hurls images at me to make me feel bad. ❋ Unknown (2009)