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Priggishness

Definition: Priggishness

Priggishness

Noun

1. Exaggerated and arrogant properness.

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

Date "priggishness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references)

 

Synonym: Priggishness

Synonym: primness (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Priggishness

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Vanity

Airs, affected manner, pretensions, mannerism; egotism; priggism, priggishness; coxcombry, gaudery, vainglory, elation; pride; ostentation; assurance.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Usage Frequency: Priggishness

"Priggishness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Priggishness" is used about 7 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%7133,076

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Priggishness

Language Translations for "priggishness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Greek 

  

πουριτανισμόσ (puritanism), επιτήδευση (affectation, mannerism, priggery, primness, prissiness, sophistication), οίηση (conceit, puffiness, self-conceit, stuffiness). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kényeskedés (affectation, prudery, prudishness, queasiness), önhittség (cock-sureness, conceit, confidence, false pride, hubris, over confidence, pretension, self-conceit, self-importance, superciliousness). (various references)

   

Manx

  

priggaght. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iggishnesspray.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

pedanterie (pedantry), formalism (formalism, starch). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

педантичность (hairsplitting, pedantry, punctilio). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

presunción (assumption, conceit, conjecture, pomposity, presumption, pretension, pretentiousness, self-assertion, self-importance, smugness), mojigatería (hypocrisy, prudery, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tính l m bộ, tính khinh khỉnh (moroseness, morosity, offishness, toploftiness), tính hay lên mặt ta đây hay chữ, tính hay lên mặt ta đây đạo đức, tính hợm mình (self-conceit). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Priggishness

Derivations

Words beginning with "priggishness": priggishnesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Priggishness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-g-h-i-i-n-p-r-s-s-s"

-1 letter: piggishness.

-3 letters: perishing, pressings.

-4 letters: hissings, inspires, pressing, priggish, prissies, prissing, seisings, sergings, sniggers, speiring, sphering, sphinges, spiering, springes.

-5 letters: gingers, gipsies, girshes, griping, heiring, hingers, hipness, hissers, hissies, hissing, ingress, inspire, peising, piggier, piggies, piggins, piggish, pingers, pishing, pissers, pissing, prising, prisses, reships, resigns, risings, seising, seisins, serging, shiners, shinier, shrines, sieging, sighers.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-g-h-i-i-n-p-r-s-s-s"
 

+2 letters: priggishnesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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