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prig 音标拼音: [pr'ɪg] n. 一本正经的人 一本正经的人 prig n 1: a person regarded as arrogant and annoying [ synonym: { snob}, { prig}, { snot}, { snoot}] Prig \ Prig\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Prigged}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Prigging}.] [ A modification of prick.] To haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot.] [ 1913 Webster]
Prig \ Prig\, v. t. 1. To cheapen. [ Scot.] [ 1913 Webster] 2. [ Perhaps orig., to ride off with. See { Prick}, v. t.] To filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief. [ Cant] [ 1913 Webster]
Prig \ Prig\, n. 1. A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow. [ 1913 Webster] The queer prig of a doctor. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A thief; a filcher. [ Cant] -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 45 Moby Thesaurus words for " prig": Brahmin, Grundy, Victorian, bluenose, clout, conformist, cop, egghead, elitist, filch, filcher, formalist, genteel, goody- goody, heist, highbrow, larcener, larcenist, mandarin, mid- Victorian, nab, name- dropper, nick, old maid, pedant, pilfer, pilferer, precisian, precisionist, priggish, prissy, prude, prudish, purist, puritan, puritanical, purloiner, snob, stealer, stick- in- the- mud, straitlaced, stuffed shirt, stuffy, thieve, tufthunter
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