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Definition: Priggish |
PriggishAdjective1. Exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "priggish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references) |
Synonyms: PriggishSynonyms: prim (adj), prissy (adj), prudish (adj), puritanical (adj), square-toed (adj), straightlaced (adj), straitlaced (adj), tight-laced (adj), victorian (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affectation | Stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical, foppish, dandified; finical, finikin; mincing, simpering, namby-pamby, sentimental. |
Vanity | Self-satisfied, self-confident, self-sufficient, self-flattering, self-admiring, self-applauding, self-glorious, self-opinionated; entente; (wrongheaded); wise in one's own conceit, pragmatical, overwise, pretentious, priggish; egotistic, egotistical; soi-disant; (boastful); arrogant. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Priggish |
| English words defined with "priggish": priggishly, Priggism. (references) |
| "Priggish" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Priggish" is used about 28 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 85.71% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.29% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 28 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "priggish": Priggish-ness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
priggish | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "priggish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | самодоволен и ограничен, формалистичен, пуритански (austere, puritan, puritanic, puritanical, round-headed, square-toed, straitlaced), превзет (affected, cute, flamboyant, fussy, glossy, histrionic, lackadaisical, mannered, mincing, minikin, namby-pamby, nice, niminy-piminy, old-maidish, pansy, precious, pretentious, pretty, pretty-pretty, prim, prissy, pseudo, recherche, schoolmistressy, sidy, snobbish, stuffy), педантичен (academic, academical, bookish, donnish, finical, literal, mandarin, niminy-piminy, pedantic, pettifogging, precise, punctilious, punctual, scholastic, starchy, stuffy). (various references) | |
Czech | puntièkářský (hairsplitting, meticulous, pedantic, precise, punctilious, scrupulous). (various references) | |
Farsi | سخت گیر (Astringent, Difficult, Hard, Intransigent, Severe, Squeamish, Stern, Stickler, Strict, Unrelenting), خودنما (Airy, Blatant, Cocky, Jaunty, Ostentatious, Perky, Showy), ایرادی . (various references) | |
French | pharisaïque. (various references) | |
German | selbstgefällig (complacent, gloating, gloatingly, holier-than-thou, self complacent, self-satisfied, smug, smugly), nachnäsig. (various references) | |
Greek | σεμνότυφοσ (demure, prude, prudish, straitlaced, tight laced), φαντασμένοσ (bumptious, cocky, conceited, coxcomb, hoity toity, jackanapes, ladida, opinionated, self-conceited, self-important, smug, snobbish, snooty, stuck up, stuffed shirt, stuffy). (various references) | |
Hebrew | צ"ק י. (various references) | |
Hungarian | önhitt (bumptious, dandified young man, hubristic, perky, presumptuous, proud, self sufficient, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-important, supercilious), pózoló (self-conscious), kényeskedő (missy, namby-pamby, pernickety). (various references) | |
Indonesian | angkuh (appearence, arrogant, cavalier, form, vainglorious). (various references) | |
Italian | moralista (moralist, moralistic, prig, prudish), moraleggiante. (various references) | |
Manx | priggagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iggishpray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pretensioso (assuming, assumptive, bounder, bumptious, chesty, cocksure, cocksy, cocky, conceited, donnish, exquisite, goody, gooey, hoity-toity, la-di-da, orotund, pretentious, prig, select, showy, snob, snooty, square-toed, swanky), presumido (assuming, cock-a-hoop, cockalorum, fop, immodest, overweening, presumed, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, proud, proud-spirited, self-satisfied, sidy, snooty, square-toed, swanky), pedante (bumbling, cloddish, donnish, pedant, pedantic, prig, square-toed, uncouth, wiseacre), cheio de si mesmo (square-toed). (various references) | |
Romanian | pedant (academic, academical, bookish, captious, censorious, dryasdust, far fetched, inkhorn, milliner, opinioned, pedant, pedantic, pernickety, precise, precisian, prig, priggishly, prissy, prolix, punctilious, scholastic), infatuat (cocky, conceited, inflated, perkily, perky, pompous, prig), fudul (arrogant, cocksure, conceited, purse proud), formalist (ceremonious, formal, formalist, prig, punctilious). (various references) | |
Russian | самодовольный (bighead, bumptious, cock-a-hoop, complacent, conceited, coxcombical, huffy, po-faced, self-complacent, self-righteous, self-satisfied, smug, stuck-up), педантичный (donnish, pedantic, precise, punctilious, square-toed). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | lopovski (roguish, thieving, thievish, thievishly), cepidlački (carping, hairsplitting). (various references) | |
Spanish | presumido (attitudinizer, boastful, cocksure, conceited, hoity toity, pompous, poseur, presumptuous, pretentious, prig, self-assertive, self-conceited, self-important, show off, smug, snooty, stuck up, vain, vainglorious), pedante (bookish, pedant, pedantic, pedantical, popinjay, prig, scholastic), mojigato (hypocrite, prig, prude, prudish, sanctimonious), gazmoño (prig, prude, strait laced). (various references) | |
Swedish | självgod (self-opinionated, self-righteous), petig (finical, finicking, finicky, finikin, fussy, meticulous, narrow, pernickety). (various references) | |
Turkish | ukalâca (cavalierly, donnish, sapiently, scholastic, sesquipedalian, smart-alecky, stupidly), ukalâ (bumptious, cavalier, clever dick, highbrow, know-it-all, pedant, pedantic, prig, 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, prig, 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), bilgiçlik taslayan (donnish, pedantic, pragmatic, pragmatical). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | педантичний (donnish, dryasdust, meticulous, notional, pedantic, pedantical, pernickety, persnickety, precise, prim, punctilious, square-toed). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lên mặt ta đây hay chữ, lên mặt ta đây đạo đức; hợm mình, l m bộ; khinh khỉnh. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "priggish": priggishly, priggishness, priggishnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Priggish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: greggism, ringisho, ruggish. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "priggish" (pronounced 'Prig"gish'): hoggish, largish, Muggish, Niggish, Piggish, Riggish, sluggish, Waggish, Whiggish. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-g-h-i-i-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: piggish. | |
-3 letters: girsh, grigs, grips, prigs, rishi, sprig. | |
-4 letters: ghis, gigs, gips, grig, grip, hips, iris, phis, pigs, pish, prig, rigs, rips, ship, shri, sigh. | |
-5 letters: ghi, gig, gip, hip, his, phi, pig, pis, psi, rig, rip, sip, sir, sri. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-g-h-i-i-p-r-s" | |
+2 letters: priggishly. | |
+4 letters: priggishness. | |
+5 letters: angiographies, hagiographies. | |
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