prim
a. 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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教材释义与例句
使显得一本正经；把…打扮得整整齐齐
显得一本正经
拘谨的；整洁的；呆板的
释义与例句
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A prim person.
古体 废旧 -
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privet
古体 生物 植物学
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To make one's expression prim.
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To give a prim or demure expression to (one's face, mouth, or (rare) lips).
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To dress (one) up affectedly or demurely.
古体 及物
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Of a person, their manner or appearance: Formal and precise; stiffly decorous.
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Of a person: Prudish; straight-laced.
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Of things: Neat; trim.
prim regularity
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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.
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