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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PRIG, n.
1. A pert, conceited, saucy, pragmatical fellow.
2. A thief.
PRIG, v.i. To haggle about the price of a commodity.
PRIG, v.t. To filch or steal.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: prig to steal Date: 1610 thief II. noun Etymology: probably from ¹prig Date: 1676 1. archaic fop 2. archaic fellow, person 3. one who offends or irritates by observance of proprieties (as of speech or manners) in a pointed manner or to an obnoxious degree • priggery noun • priggish adjective • priggishly adverb • priggishness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a self-righteously correct or moralistic person. Derivatives: priggery n. priggish adj. priggishly adv. priggishness n. Etymology: 16th-c. cant, = tinker: orig. unkn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Prig Prig, v. t. 1. To cheapen. [Scot.] 2. [Perhaps orig., to ride off with. See Prick, v. t.] To filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief. [Cant]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Prig Prig, n. 1. A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow. The queer prig of a doctor. --Macaulay. 2. A thief; a filcher. [Cant] --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(prigs) If you call someone a prig, you disapprove of them because they behave in a very moral way and disapprove of other people's behaviour as though they are superior. N-COUNT [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Puppy, coxcomb, conceited, pert, or pragmatical fellow, fop, jackanapes.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A thief, a cheat: also a conceited coxcomical fellow.

Moby Thesaurus

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