Priss, Miss

Priss, Miss
   A nonce name that occurs in War Brides, by Lois Battle. It is addressed to his sixteen-year-old daughter by an Australian father. She has just made a critical remark about him, and he is presumably implying that she is prissy, primly censorious.
   ‘Prissy’ itself may be a blend of ‘prim’ and ‘sissy’, or a short form of Priscilla, thought to be the kind of name borne by a prim and prudish sissy.

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