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Prig   /prɪg/   Listen
noun
Prig  n.  
1.
A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow. "The queer prig of a doctor."
2.
A thief; a filcher. (Cant)


verb
Prig  v. t.  
1.
To cheapen. (Scot.)
2.
To filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief. (Cant)


Prig  v. i.  (past & past part. prigged; pres. part. prigging)  To haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.)





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"Prig" Quotes from Famous Books



... CHARLES, a young prig who was killed in a duel of small arms with Raphael de Valentin at Aix, Savoy, in 1831. Charles had boasted of having received the title of "Bachelor of shooting" from Lepage at Paris, and that of doctor from Lozes the "King of foils." [The ...
— Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z • Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois Christophe
... well entertained by her conversation. "And I wanted to talk over old times with him so badly. His poor wife was my greatest friend. Mira Montanaro, daughter of the great banker, you know. It's not possible that that miserable little prig is my poor Mira's girl. The heiress of all the Montanaros in a black-lace gown worth twopence! When I think of her mother's beauty and her toilets! Does she ever wear the sapphires? Has anyone ever seen ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery - Riddle Stories • Various
... Edith, with spirit. "Who knows if it wasn't the only really happy thing in her life? The snobs and prigs all scold her and preach sermons at her—they did it in her lifetime: they do it now——" "Oh come, I'm neither a snob nor a prig," put in Celia, looking up in her turn, and tempering with a smile the energy of her tone—"I don't blame her for her Bothwell; I don't criticize her. I never was even able to mind about her killing ...
— The Market-Place • Harold Frederic
... would infer that you and I are alike? What does the old prig mean? I'll banter him, and laugh at him, and leave him. [Aside.] I fancy you have a wrong notion ...
— Love for Love • William Congreve
... unknown among the North Italians; sometimes one comes upon a young Italian who wants to learn German, but not often. Priggism, or whatever the substantive is, is as essentially a Teutonic vice as holiness is a Semitic characteristic; and if an Italian happens to be a prig, he will, like Tacitus, invariably show a hankering after German institutions. The idea, however, that the Italians were ever a finer people than they are now, will not pass muster with those who ...
— Selections from Previous Works - and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals • Samuel Butler


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