verb
- Assume a prim appearance.
- usage: "They mince and prim"
- Contract one's lips.
- usage: "She primmed her lips after every bite of food"
- Dress primly.
adjective
- Affectedly dainty or refined.
- synonyms: dainty, mincing, niminy-piminy, twee
- Exaggeratedly proper.
- usage: "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
- synonyms: priggish, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian
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