| 单词 | prim |
| 释义 | prim (once / 1768 pages) 1adjv 2v Prim means polite, straight-laced, even twee. Many characters in Jane Austen novels are prim and proper. Prim describes someone who is so concerned with being proper it becomes almost fake. If you go to the beach on spring break wearing a Victorian bathing costume, you're being prim. Clothes can be prim, too, like that long wool swimsuit. If you're feeling crazy, you can use prim as a verb meaning, "to purse your mouth into a prim expression" — like how you prim your lips when you look down your nose at someone using the wrong fork. WORD FAMILYprim: primly, primmed, primmer, primmest, primming, primness, prims+/primness: primnesses USAGE EXAMPLESJust shy of six feet tall, with a loose brown bob and prim features, she seems proper but speaks in profanities. New York Times(Dec 13, 2016) Brown said prim and proper behavior gets noticed and helps toward success if education and the other right elements are there. Washington Times(Dec 12, 2016) “If you are the President of the country, you need to be prim and proper,” he said. The New Yorker(Nov 13, 2016) 1 1adj affectedly dainty or refined Syn dainty, mincing, niminy-piminy, twee refined (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel 2adj exaggeratedly proper Syn priggish, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian proper marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness 3v assume a prim appearance They mince and prim Hyper change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 4v dress primly 2Syn|Hyper prim out, prim up apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog provide with clothes or put clothes on v contract one's lips She primmed her lips after every bite of food Hyper compact, compress, constrict, contract, press, squeeze squeeze or press together |
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