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prim

English

  1. 🔊 exaggeratedly proper
    “my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts”
  2. 🔊 affectedly dainty or refined
  3. 🔊 dress primly
  4. 🔊 contract one's lips
    “She primmed her lips after every bite of food”
  5. 🔊 assume a prim appearance
    “They mince and prim”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 remilgado prim, prim and proper, maudlin, prissy

Similar words

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