<adj.all> my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts
Prim \Prim\, n. [See {Privet}.] (Bot) The privet.
Prim \Prim\, a. [OF. prim, prin, prime, first, principal. sharp, thin, piercing, fr. L. primus first. See {Prime}, a.] Formal; precise; affectedly neat or nice; as, prim regularity; a prim person. --Swift.
Prim \Prim\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Primmed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Primming}.] To deck with great nicety; to arrange with affected preciseness; to prink.
Prim \Prim\, v. i. To dress or act smartly. [R.]
Privet \Priv"et\, n. [Cf. Scot. privie, Prov. E. prim-print, primwort. Prob. for primet, and perh. named from being cut and trimmed. See, {Prim}, a., and cf. {Prime} to prune, {Prim}, n., {Prie}, n.] (Bot.) An ornamental European shrub ({Ligustrum vulgare}), much used in hedges; -- called also {prim}.
{Egyptian privet}. See {Lawsonia}.
{Evergreen privet}, a plant of the genus {Rhamnus}. See {Alatern}.
{Mock privet}, any one of several evergreen shrubs of the genus {Phillyrea}. They are from the Mediterranean region, and have been much cultivated for hedges and for fancifully clipped shrubberies.
The charges seemed characteristic of a city that gained its prim reputation by closing all of its adult bookstores, banning the sale or lease of X-rated videos, and starting one of the first citizens' anti-pornography groups.
She's prim and reproving, with occasional lapses into softness, a bit like Anna with the king of Siam.
This opera opens with the Nixons (tenor James Maddalena, in dark overcoat, soprano Carolann Page, petite and prim in her red frock) slowly floating down to China in a jet.
The Atlanta Constitution recently editorialized that "Atlanta's nude dancing is so prim it would blush if it found itself amid some of the raucous goings-on in the best little House of Representatives in Georgia."
His new high fashion collection is young and elegant, with a myriad of prim little sheaths, small spencer jackets and demure chiffon gowns.
Mr. Langenscheidt thinks the books' thorough, serious, prim image is an asset, even today.
He's a three-wall squash player, she's a silvery flutist; he's fast and loose, she's prim and buttoned-down; he says tomato and she says tomah-to.
The fast-talking Kuron, with his jeans and cigarette-and-whisky-tainted voice, relishes his rapport with the rather primprime minister in twinsets and pearls.
Even if they no longer decide the nominations, even if they are usually prim and constrained compared with their gaudy past, they still offer the political parties their only times of communion, their great chance to reaffirm identity.
Her mother flees to Manchuria, suffering Japanese occupation and becoming an anti-Kuomintang agent for the Communist armies, marrying a prim, idealistic guerrilla fighter.