Definitions for prigs

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IPA: /prɪg/

Prigs is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in prigs (giprs).

Definitions for prigs

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 prigs

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

Examples for prigs

The prigs who despise the people are often loaded with lands and crowned.

"But we're all prigs," Gilbert said once in reply to some one who sneered at Roger.

Snobs and prigs do the first; bashful and mean people do the second.

Pinker is not a self-appointed enforcer of arbitrary rules, and he has little patience for purists, prigs, and pedants.

Were we to attempt to do so it would make us prigs and prudes.

Come along, Spooney,' and the pair of prigs retire superciliously.

John, again like all other prigs, was patient with those not so gifted as himself.

But any private club of prigs can be judges of whether he ought to be a citizen.

Let prigs and pedants, said he, keep all the nasty manufacture to themselves.

The Philistines loved him for his world‑wide popularity; the prigs in spite of it!