Prig

Definition: Prig

Prig

Noun

1. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "prig" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references)

Literature

Slang in 1811

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Synonyms: Prig

Affectation

Affector, performer, actor; pedant, pedagogue, doctrinaire, purist, euphuist, mannerist; grimacier; lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule, bas bleu, blue stocking, poetaster; prig; charlatan; (deceiver); (fop); flatterer; coquette, prude, puritan.

Blusterer

Puppy; (fop); prig; Sir Oracle, dogmatist, doctrinaire, jack-in-office; saucebox, malapert, jackanapes, minx;puppy; (fop); prig; Sir Oracle, dogmatist, doctrinaire, jack-in-office; saucebox, malapert, jackanapes, minx; bantam-cock.

Stealing

Verb: steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim, crib, cabbage, palm; abstract; appropriate, plagiarize.

Crosswords: Prig

Manx (prig ).

Books

• Prig Tales: Ethics and Etiquette for the 90's (reference)

• The life of a prig (reference)

  (more book examples)

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One showed a vain and noisy prig, That shouted empty words and big At him that nodded in a wig.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Ending with "prig": un-prig.

Albanian

vjedhës (burglar, cat burglar, cracksman, hooker, larcenous, lurcher, peculator, pickpocket, pilferer, robber, sneak, thief), vjedh (cop, Frisk, hook, lift, mooch, nobble, peculate, pilfer, pinch, purloin, Rob, salvage, scrounge, snitch, steal, take away, thieve, walk off with), moralist (moralist), formalist (formalist). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منافق (dissembler, double, double faced, double-dealer, double-tongued, hypocrite, hypocritical, insincere, two faced), ‏مرآي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

самодоволен и ограничен човек, формалист (formalist, precisian), крадец (lifter, mugger, picklock, robber, thief), крада (filch, knap, lift, loot, mooch, plunder, poach, purloin, rustle, scarp, snitch, steal, thieve, win), задигам (bag, carry away, filch, finger, grab, lift, mooch, nip, pinch, run away with, scarp, scrounge, snaffle, sneak, swipe, walk off with), пуританин (puritan, square toes), позьор (affected person, dude, fraud, poser, poseur, pretender, sham), педант (formalist, pedagogue, pedant, pettifogger, precisian, scholastic, square toes, verbalist), джебчия (dip, diver, pickpocket). (various references)

Czech

puntièkář (pedant, perfectionist, stickler), zlodìj (burglar, robber, thief, yeggman). (various references)

Farsi 

میخ کوچک , نکته گیر, کش رفتن (Abstract, Cabbage, Nip, Palm, Pilfer, Snip, Snitch, Swipe), ایرادگیر (Captious), التماس کردن (Beseech, Obtest, Solicit, Supplicate), ادم خودنما, شخص منفور, دله دزد, دزدیدن (Embezzle, Peak, Picaroonp, Pick, Purloin, Rifle, Rob, Spoliate, Steal, Thieve). (various references)

French

pharisien. (various references)

German

eingebildet (arrogant, big-headed, cockily, cocky, conceited, conceitedly, imaginary, imagined, make believe, overweening, proud, snotty, vain, vainly, visionary). (various references)

Greek 

κλέπτησ (appropriator, moocher, pirate, purloiner, scrounger, snitcher, stealer, swiper), καυχώμενοσ επί αρετή, πουριτανόσ (puritan, strait laced), ηθικολόγοσ (casuist, moralist). (various references)

Hebrew 

צ�"קן (just, pious, righteous). (various references)

Hungarian

beképzelt ember (turkey-cock), öntelt ember (cockalorum). (various references)

Italian

pedante (bookish, niggler, niggling, pedant, pedantic, schoolmarmish, stickler), saccente (know all, saucy, smatterer), moralista (moralist, moralistic, priggish, prudish), ladro (burglar, hooker, picaroon, robber, thief, thieving). (various references)

Manx

prig. (various references)

Pig Latin

igpray.(various references)

Portuguese

pretensioso (assuming, assumptive, bounder, bumptious, chesty, cocksure, cocksy, cocky, conceited, donnish, exquisite, goody, gooey, hoity-toity, la-di-da, orotund, pretentious, priggish, select, showy, snob, snooty, square-toed, swanky), pessoa presumida, pedante (bumbling, cloddish, donnish, pedant, pedantic, priggish, square-toed, uncouth, wiseacre), roubar (abstract, bereave, bone, cabbage, despoil, embezzle, extort, fake, filch, grab, hold up, kidnap, loot, lurch, make away with, nab, picaroon, pick, pirate, plunder, purloin, rifle, rob, rustle, screw out of, scrounge, snitch, snoop, steal, strip, swipe, take away, thieve), gatuno (black list, lifter, light-fingered, lurcher, pickpocket, pilferer, prowler, shark, sharp, sharper, thief, thievish), furtar (cabbage, dodge, filch, nab, prey, purloin, rob, scrounge, shoplift, snoop, steal, swipe, thieve). (various references)

Romanian

pungaş (biter, cheat, Cutpurse, duffer, fraud, gun, jockey, juggler, knave, lurcher, manipulator, mountebank, pickpocket, pilferer, rascal, rogue, rook, rough, scab, shark, snap, swindler, thief), pedant (academic, academical, bookish, captious, censorious, dryasdust, far fetched, inkhorn, milliner, opinioned, pedant, pedantic, pernickety, precise, precisian, priggish, priggishly, prissy, prolix, punctilious, scholastic), sfeterisi (knock off, lift, make away with, nobble, pick, sneak), infatuat (cocky, conceited, inflated, perkily, perky, pompous, priggish), hoţ (abductor, burglar, cracksman, housebreaker, knave, larcener, picaroon, pilferer, purloiner, reaver, robber, thief), fura (abstract, crib, defalcate, embezzle, filch, hook, kidnap, knock off, lift, make away with, nibble, nim, pick pockets, pilfer, pill, pinch, plagiarize, poach, purloin, Raven, reave, snake, steal, thieve), formalist (ceremonious, formal, formalist, priggish, punctilious), ciordi (filch, hook, pilfer, pinch). (various references)

Russian 

формалист (formalist, precisian, square toes, square-toes). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

lopov (blackleg, burglar, crook, hacker, lifter, picklock, robber, sneak thief, taker, thief, yegg), krasti (rustle, steal, thieve), cepidlaka (dryasdust, pedant, splitter, square toes, stickler). (various references)

Spanish

presumido (attitudinizer, boastful, cocksure, conceited, hoity toity, pompous, poseur, presumptuous, pretentious, priggish, self-assertive, self-conceited, self-important, show off, smug, snooty, stuck up, vain, vainglorious), pedante (bookish, pedant, pedantic, pedantical, popinjay, priggish, scholastic), mojigato (hypocrite, priggish, prude, prudish, sanctimonious), gazmoño (priggish, prude, strait laced). (various references)

Swedish

självkär pedant. (various references)

Turkish

yürütmek (collar, filch, go through with, hold down, lift, make away with, Nick, pilfer, prosecute, purloin, pursue, push, scrounge, snaffle, sneak, wage, walk, walk away with, walk off with), ukalâ (bumptious, cavalier, clever dick, highbrow, know-it-all, pedant, pedantic, priggish, sapient, smart, smart aleck, smarty, snappish, wise, wise guy), kendini beğenmiş (arrogant, assuming, bighead, bigheaded, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, cocky, conceited, egotistical, haughty, high hat, high-flown, high-flying, hoity toity, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, important, insufferable, jackanapes, jumped-up, mugwump, overweening, pompous, pretentious, priggish, self sufficient, self-important, self-opinionated, self-righteous, smug, Sniffy, snooty, snotty, stuck up, stuffed shirt, stuffy, supercilious, swelled head, swollen-headed, taffy-nosed, toffee-nosed, toffy-nosed, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain), fazilet (merit, virtue), doğruluk (accuracy, authenticity, candor, candour, correctitude, correctness, directness, evenness, exactitude, exactness, faithfulness, fidelity, honesty, integrity, justice, justness, preciseness, precision, probity, rectitude, right, righteousness, rightness, sincerity, soundness, straightforwardness, straightness, trueness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness, validity, veracity, Verity), bilgiç (know all, pedant, pragmatist), aşırmak (abstract, bag, cop, crib, filch, help oneself to, hoist, hook, make off with, mooch, pass over, pilfer, purloin, scrounge, snaffle, snitch, steal, walk off with, whip). (various references)

Ukrainian

торгуватися (bargain, barter, cheapen, haggle, higgle, palter), педант (disciplinarian, martinet, nit-picker, pedagog, pedagogue, pedant, precisian, splitter), докучливо домагатися. (various references)

Vietnamese 

người l� m bộ, người hay lên mặt ta đây hay chữ, người hay lên mặt ta đây đạo đức, người hợm mình. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "prig": prigged, priggeries, priggery, prigging, priggish, priggishly, priggishness, priggishnesses, priggism, priggisms, prigs. (additional references)

Words ending with "prig": sprig. (additional references)

Words containing "prig": sprigged, sprigger, spriggers, spriggier, spriggiest, sprigging, spriggy, spright, sprightful, sprightfully, sprightfulness, sprightfulnesses, sprightlier, sprightliest, sprightliness, sprightlinesses, sprightly, sprights, sprigs, upright, uprighted, uprighting, uprightly, uprightness, uprightnesses, uprights. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Prig" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arig, orig, paig, Parigi, peig, Peigi, Pereg, perif, perig, pfig, phig, pigi, pir, pirge, Pirjo, plig, Prag, Prage, preb, preg, preggy, Pregl, prej, prev, pri, pria, priag, prib, pric, Prigg, prigy, prij, pril, prin, pring, Pringi, prip, prit, priv, priw, priz, protg, prsi, prurgh, pryg, prysg, pryt, pyrg, pyrgic, rpg, Rpgii. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: grip.

-1 letter: gip, pig, rig, rip.

-2 letters: pi.

+1 letter: gripe, grips, gript, gripy, pirog, prigs, sprig.

+2 letters: gipper, griped, griper, gripes, gripey, grippe, grippy, paring, pinger, pirogi, poring, prying, raping, riping, roping, sprigs, spring, upgird, upgirt.

+3 letters: burping, carping, craping, creping, digraph, draping, epigram, gappier, garpike, gimpier, gippers, goopier, graphic, grapier, graplin, gripers, gripier, griping, gripman, gripmen, gripped, gripper, grippes, gripple, groping, groupie, guipure, gulpier, harping, impregn, ingroup, pagurid, pairing, parging, parings, parking, parling, parring, parsing, parting, peering, perigee, perigon, periwig, perking, perming, pierogi, piggery, piggier, pignora, pilgrim, pingers, piragua, pirogen, piroghi, pirogue, podgier, porgies, porting, pouring, prating, praying, preeing, preying, pricing, priding, prigged, primage, priming, prising, prizing, probing, prodigy, prosing, proving, pruning, prurigo, pudgier, puggier, purging, purling, purring, pursing, ramping, rapping, rasping, reaping, ripping, romping, rouping, serpigo, sparing, spiring, sporing, spriggy, spright, springe, springs, springy, upgirds, upright, warping.