PRIG

snob, prig, snot, snoot

(noun) a person regarded as arrogant and annoying

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

prig (plural prigs)

(British, archaic, thieves) A tinker.

(British, archaic, thieves) A petty thief or pickpocket.

A deliberately superior person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner.

(archaic) A conceited dandy; a fop.

Synonyms

• (petty thief): See Thesaurus:thief

• (person exhibiting excess propriety): goody-goody, prude, puritan

• (conceited dandy): See Thesaurus:dandy

Verb

prig (third-person singular simple present prigs, present participle prigging, simple past and past participle prigged)

(slang, dated) To filch or steal.

To ride

To copulate

Synonyms

• (steal): cozen, mill, purloin; see also steal

• (copulate): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also copulate with

Anagrams

• IGRP, PIRG, grip

Source: Wiktionary

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Prig, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Prigged; p. pr. & vb. n. Prigging.] Etym: [A modification of prick.]

Definition: To haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Prig, v. t.

1. To cheapen. [Scot.]

2. Etym: [Perhaps orig., to ride off with. See Prick, v. t.]

Definition: To filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief. [Cant]

Prig, n.

1. A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow. The queer prig of a doctor. Macaulay.

2. A thief; a filcher. [Cant] Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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