Word of the Day: MIMINY-MOUTHED

ETYMOLOGY
from mim (reserved or restrained in manner or behaviour, esp. in a contrived or priggish way; affectedly modest, demure; primly silent) + -mouthed

EXAMPLE
“… Pictures of miminy-mouthed ladies and spindly fops…”

From: The People of Clopton
By George Bartram, 1897