Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Prig"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Prig \Prig\, n.
1. A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow.
The queer prig of a doctor. --Macaulay.
2. A thief; a filcher. [Cant] --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
prig
n : a person regarded as arrogant and annoying [syn: {snob}, {snot}]
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