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[syn: snob, prig, snot, snoot]
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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
prig
n 1: a person regarded as arrogant and annoying [syn: snob,
prig, snot, snoot]
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