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n.1.(Bot) The privet.
a.1.Formal; precise; affectedly neat or nice; as, prim regularity; a prim person.
v. t.1.To deck with great nicety; to arrange with affected preciseness; to prink.
[imp. & p. p. Primmed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Primming.]
v. i.1.To dress or act smartly.
Verb1.prim - assume a prim appearance; "They mince and prim"
2.prim - contract one's lips; "She primmed her lips after every bite of food"
3.prim - dress primly
Synonyms: prim out, prim up
Adj.1.prim - affectedly dainty or refined
2.prim - exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
Quakerish, Victorian, bluenosed, buckram, censorious, ceremonial, ceremonious, chipper, conventional, correct, decorous, demure, genteel, hidebound, in buckram, mid-Victorian, narrow, neat, nice, old-maidish, orderly, overmodest, precise, prig, prissy, proper, prudish, 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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