priss

Definitions

Examples

• Amina keeps her musical activities a secret from her devout school friends, forcing the already nervous priss into a double life.

• In those hours beside Mark, Priss completed the transition from girl to woman.

• Priss read it over his shoulder, and afterwards she clung close to Joel.

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

• “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.