Meaning of PRIM
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- [adj] exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
- [adj] affectedly dainty or refined
- [v] dress primly
- [v] contract one's lips; "She primmed her lips after every bite of food"
- [v] assume a prim appearance; "They mince and prim"
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| | Synonyms: | | dainty, mincing, niminy-piminy, priggish, prim out, prim up, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, refined, square-toed, straightlaced, straitlaced, tight-laced, twee, victorian |
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| | See Also: | | apparel, change, clothe, compact, compress, constrict, contract, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, press, raiment, squeeze, tog | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Prim\, n. [See {Privet}.] (Bot)
The privet.
\Prim\, a. [OF. prim, prin, prime, first, principal. sharp,
thin, piercing, fr. L. primus first. See {Prime}, a.]
Formal; precise; affectedly neat or nice; as, prim
regularity; a prim person. --Swift.
\Prim\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Primmed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Primming}.]
To deck with great nicety; to arrange with affected
preciseness; to prink.
\Prim\, v. i.
To dress or act smartly. [R.]
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