Definitions for priss

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Spelling: [pris]
IPA: /prɪs/

Priss is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in priss (iprss).

Definitions for priss

noun

  1. a prissy person.

Origin of priss

1920-25, Americanism, back formation from prissy

Examples for priss

But he must have been a blind man not to have seen in that first moment that priss was no longer child, but woman.

When priss heard of them, she swung about and lifted up her face to his, listening like a child.

Joel was below, in the cabin with priss, when his brother boarded the ship.

priss had put curtains on the windows; and she had a lily, in a pot, at one of them, and a clump of pansies at another.

And priss, listening, winced at the thing that was like apology in his tone.

priss met them in the after cabin, crouching in a corner, white and still, her hands at her throat.

This was not difficult; he did it so laughingly and so dextrously that priss changed her mind without knowing just why she did so.

Joel told priss nothing of what he hoped and feared; nor did he question Jim Finch in the matter.

“My dear priss,” he said, in the elder-brother manner he affected toward her.

priss had planned to go ashore in the afternoon; but Mark dissuaded her.

Word Value for priss
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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