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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
prim/prɪm/

▶adjective (primmer, primmest) feeling or showing disapproval of anything improper; stiffly correct. ▶verb (prims, primming, primmed) purse (the mouth or lips) into a prim expression.

– derivatives
primly adverb,
primness noun.

– origin C17 (as v.): prob. ult. from OFr. prin, Provençal prim ‘excellent, delicate’, from L. primus ‘first’.

'prim' also found in these Oxford entries:

mimsy - niminy-piminy - old maid - prime - primp - prissy - schoolmarm

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