prig

5 definitions found

prig - 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.
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  Prig \Prig\, v. t.
     1. To cheapen. [Scot.]
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     2. [Perhaps orig., to ride off with. See Prick, v. t.] To
        filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief. [Cant]
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  Prig \Prig\, n.
     1. A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow.
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              The queer prig of a doctor.           --Macaulay.
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     2. A thief; a filcher. [Cant] --Shak.
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prig - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  prig
      n 1: a person regarded as arrogant and annoying [syn: snob,
           prig, snot, snoot]

prig - 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