Definitions of prig [ɪg]

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Definition of 'prig'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) prig
a person self-righteously concerned with the observance of proprieties.

Etymology: (1560–70; formerly, coxcomb)

Definition of 'prig'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) snob, prig, snot, snoot
a person regarded as arrogant and annoying

Definition of 'prig'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) prig
a pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow

2. (noun) prig
a thief; a filcher

3. (verb) prig
to haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard

4. (verb) prig
to cheapen

5. (verb) prig
to filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief

Definitions of 'prig'

The Roycroft Dictionary

prig
A person with more money than he needs.

Translation of 'prig'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a person who is too satisfied with his/her own behaviour, beliefs etc.
Afrikaans: wysneus	Arabic: متَباهٍ بِنَفْسِه	Bulgarian: самодоволен и ограничен ч
Brazilian: pedante	Czech: domýšlivec	German: der/die selbstgefällige P
Danish: selvglad person	Greek: σεμνότυφος	Spanish: pedante, presumido
Estonian: ennast täis inimene	Farsi: آدم ناخوشایند	Finnish: tärkeilijä
French: poseur/-euse	Hebrew: צָדִיק בְּעֵיני עַצמוֹ	Hindi: दम्भी
Croatian: nametljivo pedantna osoba	Hungarian: beképzelt ember	Indonesian: orang sombong
Icelandic: sjálfumglaður maður	Italian: presuntuoso	Japanese: 知ったかぶりの人
Korean: 박식한 체 하는 사람	Lithuanian: pasipūtėlis	Latvian: uzpūtīgs cilvēks; pūslis
Malay: sombong dan kolot	Dutch: verwaand, pedant iemand	Norwegian: dydsmønster
Polish: zarozumialec	Persian: آدم ناخوشایند	Pashto: چالاكه،غل
Portuguese: pedante	Romanian: persoană îngâmfată; înc	Russian: самодовольный человек
Slovak: ješitný človek, namyslene	Slovenian: domišljavec	Serbian: dežurni moralista
Swedish: självgod pedant, petimete	Thai: คนอวดดี	Turkish: kendini beğenmiş kimse, u
Taiwanese: 自命不凡的人	Ukrainian: обмежена і самовдоволена	Urdu: خود پسند
Vietnamese: người hợm mình	Chinese: 自命不凡的人
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