- formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
- (especially of a woman or girl) excessively demure or modest.
- to draw up the mouth in an affectedly nice or precise way.
- to make prim, as in appearance.
- to draw (one's face, lips, etc.) into a prim expression.
- primary.
- primitive.
- affectedly proper, precise, or formal
- to make prim
- to purse (the mouth) primly or (of the mouth) to be so pursed
