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Hasibul Alam Posted 5 years ago
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What is the meaning of prim here?
She pursed her lips and took a prim sip of tea.
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: Stiffly formal and respectable; feeling or showing disapproval of anything regarded as improper. com/en/definition/prim ) A sip can itself hardly literally be "prim", but of course we understand the word to refer to this lady's demeanour as she sipped.
- : Stiffly formal and respectable; feeling or showing disapproval of anything regarded as improper.
- com/en/definition/prim ) A sip can itself hardly literally be "prim", but of course we understand the word to refer to this lady's demeanour as she sipped.
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"prim" here has its ordinary meaning, such as you will find in a dictionary, e.g.:
Stiffly formal and respectable; feeling or showing disapproval of anything regarded as improper.
(https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/prim)
A sip can itself hardly literal
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