prissy

And I didn’t know their winking humor was rooted in Hollywood’s pansy craze of the 1920s and ’30s, when actors like Franklin Pangborn played prissy hotel managers and other queer-coded characters at a time when being publicly gay carried the risk of arrest.

Spears also played basketball in school and worked at a seafood restaurant cleaning shellfish and serving plates of food “while doing my prissy dancing in my cute little outfits,” the singer wrote.

Despite her San Francisco pedigree, Feinstein was despised by many on the political left, who found her personally too prissy and politically too centrist.

For instance, Scarlett O’Hara in this version of the script threatened the enslaved Prissy with a whipping.

Although Scarlett does make similar threats and even slaps Prissy in the final version, this particular line didn’t make the cut.