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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
prig \prig\, v. i. imp. p. p. prigged; p. pr. vb. n.
prigging. a modification of prick.
to haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard.
prov. eng. scot.
1913 webster
see also:
prigged prigging
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
prig \prig\, v. t.
1. to cheapen. scot.
1913 webster
2. perhaps orig., to ride off with. see prick, v. t. to
filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief. cant
1913 webster
see also:
prick
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
prig \prig\, n.
1. a pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow.
1913 webster
the queer prig of a doctor. --macaulay.
1913 webster
2. a thief; a filcher. cant --shak.
1913 webster
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
prig
n : a person regarded as arrogant and annoying syn: snob, snot
also: prigging, prigged
see also:
snob snot prigging prigged
- [5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
45 moby thesaurus words for "prig":
brahmin, grundy, victorian, bluenose, clout, conformist, cop,
egghead, elitist, filch, filcher, formalist, genteel, goody-goody,
heist, highbrow, larcener, larcenist, mandarin, mid-victorian, nab,
name-dropper, nick, old maid, pedant, pilfer, pilferer, precisian,
precisionist, priggish, prissy, prude, prudish, purist, puritan,
puritanical, purloiner, snob, stealer, stick-in-the-mud,
straitlaced, stuffed shirt, stuffy, thieve, tufthunter
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