From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Prim \Prim\, noun [See {Privet}.] (Bot) The privet.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Prim \Prim\, adjective [OF. prim, prin, prime, first, principal. sharp, thin, piercing, fr. L. primus first. See {Prime}, adjective] Formal; precise; affectedly neat or nice; as, prim regularity; a prim person. --Swift.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Prim \Prim\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Primmed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Primming}.] To deck with great nicety; to arrange with affected preciseness; to prink.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Prim \Prim\, verb (used without an object) To dress or act smartly. [R.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Privet \Priv"et\, noun [Cf. Scot. privie, Prov. E. prim-print, primwort. Prob. for primet, and perh. named from being cut and trimmed. See, {Prim}, adjective, and cf. {Prime} to prune, {Prim}, noun, {Prie}, noun] (Bot.) An ornamental European shrub ({Ligustrum vulgare}), much used in hedges; -- called also {prim}.
{Egyptian privet}. See {Lawsonia}.
{Evergreen privet}, a plant of the genus {Rhamnus}. See {Alatern}.
{Mock privet}, any one of several evergreen shrubs of the genus {Phillyrea}. They are from the Mediterranean region, and have been much cultivated for hedges and for fancifully clipped shrubberies.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: affectedly dainty or refined [syn: {dainty}, {mincing}, {niminy-piminy}, {twee}]
2: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts" [syn: {priggish}, {prissy}, {prudish}, {puritanical}, {square-toed}, {straitlaced}, {strait-laced}, {straightlaced}, {straight-laced}, {tight-laced}, {victorian}]
verb
1: assume a prim appearance; "They mince and prim"
2: contract one's lips; "She primmed her lips after every bite of food"
3: dress primly [syn: {prim up}, {prim out}] [also: {primming}, {primmed}, {primmest}, {primmer}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "prim": Quakerish, Victorian, bluenosed, buckram, censorious, ceremonial, ceremonious, chipper, conventional, correct, decorous, demure, formal, genteel, hidebound, in buckram, mid-Victorian, narrow, neat, nice, old-maidish, orderly, overmodest, precise, prig, priggish, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, rigid, sanctimonious, shipshape, smug, snug, spick-and-span, starch, starched, stiff, stiff-necked, stilted, straight, straitlaced, stuffy, tidy, trim, uncluttered, well-groomed, wooden
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