PRIM


Meaning of PRIM in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ prɪm ]

If you describe someone as prim , you disapprove of them because they behave too correctly and are too easily shocked by anything rude.

We tend to imagine that the Victorians were very prim and proper.

ADJ [ disapproval ]

• prim‧ly

We sat primly at either end of a long settee...

ADV : ADV with v

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