prim
adjective
[ prɪm ]
• feeling or showing disapproval of anything regarded as improper; stiffly correct.
• "a very prim and proper lady"
Similar:
demure,
proper,
prim and proper,
formal,
stuffy,
strait-laced,
prudish,
prissy,
mimsy,
priggish,
puritanical,
niminy-piminy,
Victorian,
old-maid,
old-maidish,
schoolmistressy,
schoolmarmish,
governessy,
po-faced,
starchy,
square-toed,
Grundyish,
prim
verb
• purse (the mouth or lips) into a prim expression.
• "Laurie primmed up his mouth"
Origin:
late 17th century (as a verb): probably ultimately from Old French prin, Provençal prim ‘excellent, delicate’, from Latin primus ‘first’.
