prissy
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“Our main concern is low turnout,” said Prissy Garza, Precinct 43 voting judge in Kleberg County.
From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2022
The word picky, I’m afraid, is misplaced here: Prissy is more like it.
From Slate • Aug. 23, 2018
Never mind that it was Prissy who said that, not Mammy, or that it's difficult to imagine any young adult referencing it.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2015
The speedboat racer Marion Carstairs is here; so is Butterfly McQueen, who played Prissy in “Gone With the Wind”; and many more.
From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2015
I thought: If that puny-looking thing is the best one, Miss Prissy must have had a sorry litter of pups.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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