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  • proper noun A diminutive of the female given name Priscilla.

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Examples

  • It was in Prissy's prim, pretty little writing, sure enough, and it just said that his attentions were "unwelcome," and would he be "kind enough to refrain from offering them."

    Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1912

  • Yes, Gordon won't have me called Prissy any more, I'd have you know. "

    Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

  • Yes, Gordon won't have me called Prissy any more, I'd have you know. "

    Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

  • I remarked to the eldest young woman, -- called Prissy (Priscilla) by her sister, -- that the country hereabout was pleasantly wooded.

    Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War George Alfred Townsend 1877

  • One day at a club the he-old-maid "Prissy" Atterbury cackled:

    We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

  • "Prissy" was the disrespectful nickname by which the young ladies referred, behind her back, to Miss Priscilla Cabot.

    Mary-'Gusta Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • Arizona, Sherri Holly of Bedford, and Lisa Smith and husband David of Windthorst; ten grandchildren, including her "Prissy," Lindsay Denise McCraven; several great-grandchildren; numerous nieces and nephews; and her very best friends, Betty and Barney Broyles of Iowa Park, and Simba.

    Times Record News Stories 2010

  • Best known for her role as "Prissy" in the 1939 MGM movie "Gone with the Wind," Butterfly was a nearly lifelong atheist.

    Planet Atheism TPO 2010

  • Okay, let's be honest: Scarlett slapped just about everybody in that movie from Ashley to Rhett a couple of times and even poor Prissy "I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies, Miss Scarlett!!!"

    Charlotte Hilton Andersen: Women Slapping Men: Cute or Abusive? (TV Says Both!) Charlotte Hilton Andersen 2011

  • Talk about a picture of inequality: What he wears with such a confident strut makes her look as small and vulnerable as Prissy in "Gone With the Wind."

    Only If You Make Me Nancy deWolf Smith 2010

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    November 18, 2009