PRISSY

• (adj.) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted

  "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking", "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"

  synonyms : dainty , nice , overnice , squeamish

• (adj.) exaggeratedly proper

  "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"

  synonyms : priggish , prim , prudish , puritanical , square-toed , straight-laced , straightlaced , strait-laced , straitlaced , tight-laced , victorian

  Her excessively prim behavior makes her a bore. -added by naila_inlas

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