Hypertext Webster Gateway: "priggish"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Priggish \Prig"gish\, a.
Like a prig; conceited; pragmatical. -- {Prig"gish*ly}, adv.
-- {Prig"gish-ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
priggish
adj : exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't
approve of my miniskirts" [syn: {prim}, {prissy}, {prudish},
{puritanical}, {square-toed}, {straitlaced}, {straightlaced},
{tight-laced}, {victorian}]
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