prim
中文来自 ECDICT
- adj.
- 整洁的，端正的，规规矩矩的，呆板的，拘谨的
- vt.
- 弄整齐，使显出一本正经的表情
- vi.
- 作出一本正经的样子
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原始词根
原始印欧语 *per-
词源说明
Of uncertain origin.
In the verb sense, first appeared in Thomas D'Urfey's A Fool's Preferment in the year 1688.
In the noun sense, first appeared in A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew in the year 1699, meaning "prig." Now obsolete.
In the adjective sense, first appeared in Sir Richard Steele's The Funeral in the year 1702, meaning "consciously or affectedly strict or precise; stiffly formal and respectable."
Oxford English Dictionary proposed a relation with primp and prink. Chiefly Scottish and U.S.
释义（英文）
形容词 Adjective
- Of a person, their manner or appearance: Formal and precise; stiffly decorous.
- (by extension, of a person) Prudish; straight-laced