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English Dictionary: priggish by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
priggish
adj
  1. exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
    Synonym(s): priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian
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.
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