PRIG (prigged, prigging)

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Irregular inflected forms: prigged    , prigging   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does prig mean? 

• PRIG (noun)
  The noun PRIG has 1 sense:

1. a person regarded as arrogant and annoying

  Familiarity information: PRIG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRIG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person regarded as arrogant and annoying

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

prig; snob; snoot; snot

Hypernyms ("prig" is a kind of...):

disagreeable person; unpleasant person (a person who is not pleasant or agreeable)

 Context examples 

"On the contrary, he was a moral prig," Haythorne blurted out, with apparently undue warmth.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

This was manifestly a prig of the first water, and there was no use arguing with him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

If I had time, and was not in mortal dread of some prating prig of a servant passing, I would know what all this means.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Are you a prig?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Angry as I was, as we all were, I was tempted to laugh whenever he opened his mouth. The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)