princified
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English
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[edit]princified (comparative more princified, superlative most princified)
- (colloquial) imitative of a prince; haughty
- 1857–1859, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858–1859, →OCLC:
- the English girls at the Kensington Academy […] teased and tortured the little American stranger, and laughed at the princified airs which she gave herself from a very early age
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “princified”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)