Definitions for prig

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IPA: /prɪg/

Prig is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in prig (gipr).

Definitions for prig

noun

1. a person who displays or demands of others pointlessly precise conformity, fussiness about trivialities, or exaggerated propriety, especially in a self-righteous or irritating manner.
2. Chiefly British. a thief.

verb (used with object)

1. Chiefly British. to steal.

verb (used without object)

1. Scot. and North England. to haggle or argue over price.
2. British Informal. to beg or entreat; ask a favor.

Origin of prig

First recorded in 1560-70; formerly, coxcomb; perhaps akin to prink

Examples for prig

There was not to be found among them what in England is known as a prig.

It shows you are not yet the prig you would have folks believe.

I wish to God talking like this didn't make a fellow feel like a prig!

But a man who can feel horror at such a thing as this is a prig in religion.

But then his wife is a prig too, and I do not see why they should not suit each other.

How came so sweet a blossom to waste her perfumes on such a prig?

But the precocious Adams had only a little of the prig and nothing of the hypocrite in his nature.

Oh, I dare say they'd make a good team,—one's a prude and the other a prig.

Conscious superiority is the note of the prig; and we have the right to dread it.

I hope I am not a prig, and, whatever I am or am not, priggishness had no part in my feelings then.