Adjective used to describe things that seem too old, tired, or boring.
Origin: The adventures of Laura
Ingalls and her family, "
Little House on the Prairie"
Usage Notes:
If it looks like it would be right at home in a one room
schoolhouse, it's probably too prairie.
If gay men like it, it's probably NOT prairie.
Did you see that girl's ridiculous
braids? She's so prairie.
OMG, my boyfriend
dragged me to a
spaghetti western film festival on Saturday. Sooooooo prairie.