adjective
- Marked by excessive concern for propriety and good form: bluenosed, genteel, precise, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, strait-laced, stuffy, Victorian. Idioms: prim and proper. See plain/fancy.
old-maidish
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The adjective has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
primly fastidious
Synonym: old-womanish
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