Definition of Prissing

1. priss [v] - See also: priss

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prissing

prisoning
prisonless
prisonlike
prisonment
prisonments
prisons
priss
prissed
prisses
prissier
prissies
prissiest
prissily
prissiness
prissinesses
prissing (current term)
prissy
pristane
pristanes
pristanic
pristanic acid
pristinamycin
pristinamycine
pristinamycines
pristinamycins
pristinate
pristine
pristinely
pristineness
pritchel

Literary usage of Prissing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Trade and Politics, 1767-1769 by Clarence Walworth Alvord, Clarence Edwin Carter (1921)
"... desired Liberty to go down and settle my own prissing affairs. have had no answer to them, In my last to Mr Croghan by Mr Gibson which doubtless will be ..."

2. A Handbook for Travellers in France: Being a Guide to Normandy, Brittany by John Murray (Firm) (1858)
"It here expands into the form of a basin, round which the Gave takes a wide turn, prissing by the village of Arudy. In descending the wooded slope from ..."

3. The law and the lady by William Wilkie Collins (1876)
"I honestly thought I did my duty in ex- prissing my disapproval, and in refusing to be present at the marriage. Was I too easily satisfied ? ..."

4. La Belle assemblée: or, Bell's court and fashionable magazine by William John Mahon (1812)
"... that her home shall ever be the home of Adula, j and tli:' prissing invitation, though she does not instr.ntly =>rc< pt, is gratefully appreciated. ..."

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