Prig
[prɪg] or [prɪɡ]
Definition
(v. i.) To haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard.
(v. t.) To cheapen.
(v. t.) To filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief.
(n.) A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow.
(n.) A thief; a filcher.
Typed by Felix
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Puppy, coxcomb; conceited, pert, saucy, or pragmatical fellow.
Typed by Aileen
Definition
n. a thief.—v.t. (slang) to filch.—v.i. (Scot.) to plead hard haggle: to cheapen.—ns. Prig′ger; Prig′gery.—adj. Prig′gish.—n. Prig′gism.
n. a pert fellow who gives himself airs of superior wisdom.—adj. Prig′gish conceited and affected.—adv. Prig′gishly.—ns. Prig′gishness Prig′gism.
Typist: Rebecca
Examples
- This man is difficult to judge; he was a man of poor physique, naturally timid, and a prig. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You're a great man--you're a sublime fellow; but you're a prig, a conceited noodle with it all, Joe! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But a prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I suppose you don't even know what a prig is? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Very kind of him, the stiff-backed prig, with his dandified airs and West End swagger. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I never can make out what you mean by a prig, said Rosamond. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Oh, tallish, dark, clever--talks well--rather a prig, I think. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Oh, why didn't he rob some rich old gentleman of all his walables, and go out as a gentleman, and not like a common prig, without no honour nor glory! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- If father was determined to make me either a Prig or a Mule, and I am not a Prig, why, it stands to reason, I must be a Mule. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- If I had time, and was not in mortal dread of some prating prig of a servant passing, I would know what all this means. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typed by Eliza