prim
/prɪm/
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American sound/prɪm/
prim
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Myanmar meaning
(adj) အရှက်ကြီးသော။ ပုံစံရိုးစင်းကျစ်လျစ်သော၊အမူအရာဣန္ဒြေစောင့်စည်းသော၊အမူအကျင့်ဗိုင်းကောင်းကျောက်ဖိပိပြားသေခွေသော။
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၁။ အရှက်ကြီးသော။ You can't tell that joke to her– she's much too prim and proper.
၂။ (ပုံစံ) ရိုးစင်းကျစ်လျစ်သော၊ (အမူအရာ) ဣနြေ္ဒ စောင့်စည်းသော၊ (အမူအကျင့်) ဗိုင်းကောင်း ကျောက်ဖိ ပိပြားသေခွေသော။ a prim little dress with a white collar.
❏ primly adv မပွင့်တပွင့်။ He didn't reply, but just smiled primly.
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prudish, stuffy, pedantic, formal, proper, Victorian, blue-nose, ceremonial, ceremonious, choosy, cleanly, conventional, correct, dapper, deck out, decked out, decorous, demure, dignified, fastidious, fussy, genteel, good, goody-goody, groom, lick into shape, make attractive, make presentable, meticulous, moralistic, neat, nice, nit-picking, orderly, overmodest, particular, polite, precise, prep, prepped, prepping, pretty up, priggish, prissy, puritanical, put through grind, put through mill, rigid, rub down, shape up, shipshape, slick up, smarten up, snobbish, spic-and-span, spiff up, spiffed up, spruce, spruce up, starchy, stickling, stiff, straight, strait-laced, tidy, titivate, uncluttered, upright, well-groomed, wooden
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