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prim
adj primmer, primmest
    1. Stiffly formal, over-modest or over-proper.
      Thesaurus: proper, tidy, demure, sedate, fastidious, formal, particular; prudish, prissy, puritanical, stiff, strait-laced, fussy, old-maidish, priggish, schoolmarmish; Antonym: broad-minded, informal.
    2. Prudishly disapproving.
verb primmed, primming
    1. To purse (the mouth, lips, etc) into an expression of primness.
    2. To make something prim.
Derivative: primly
adverb
    Derivative: primness
    noun
      Etymology: 17c.




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