PRIGGED

PRIG

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

prigged

simple past tense and past participle of prig

Source: Wiktionary


PRIG

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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