adj.

conventional; standoffish; reserved; restrained

prim ((of a person, behaviour etc.) too formal and correct • a prim manner; a prim old lady); angular; demure; ceremonious; chilly; smug; starchy; stiff ((of a person or his manner etc.) formal and unfriendly • I received a stiff note from the bank manager); prim and proper; niminy-piminy; pokerish; prissy; square-toed; buckram; donnish; stiff-necked; whalebone; nice-nelly; as stiff as a poker; starched; stiff as a poker; stuffy (a stuffy club for wealthy old men

cambridge.org Anglophile); punctilious (Anglophile); stand-offish (Ambrosia); nice nelly; niminy piminy; old maidish; square toed; stiff necked; stiff as a ramrod; stodgy (plushkina); suit and tie (Sloneno4eg); staid (Agasphere); po-faced (VLZ_58); straitlaced ("Come on, man," says McCartney. "You can't be so straitlaced to not expose yourself to experiences in life." Lily Snape); finical; flaunting; jemmy; pretty; quaint; starch; strait-laced; prudish; Victorian ((of an attitude towards morals etc.) strict and conservative • a Victorian attitude to life)

amér.

priss (Cubbi)

argot.

up tight; tight arse (Баян)

désappr.

uptight

figur.

too far fetched; stiff-backed (a stiff-backed aristocrat

merriam-webster.com Abysslooker)

gross.

with a spike up his arse (= аршин проглотивший Anglophile)

idiom.

cat that ate the canary (Interex)

чопорно adj.

standoffishly (Азери); stiffly; ceremoniously (Азери); donnishly (of donnish: of or resembling a university don); demurely ("опустив чопорно огненные свои глаза" (А.С. Пушкин) ART Vancouver); primly (Азери)

argot.

smugly (mazurov)

obsol.

finically; starchly

чопорный

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Américain usage, pas orthographe	1
Argot	1
Argot d'adolescent	1
Biologie	2
Général	18
Informel	1
Ironique	1
Makarov	10
Ornithologie	3
Peu fréquent / rare	1

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