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Stuck-up elitist
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prig
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Word definitions for prig in dictionaries
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Usage examples of prig.
Rational despotism--that is, selective despotism--is always a curse to mankind, because with that you have the ordinary man misunderstood and misgoverned by some prig who has no brotherly respect for him at all.
Whether I am safely wed to a stuffy old prude of a husband or chained to an equally overbearing prig of a brother.
Stoic, just as he was a prig and a polygamist and several other unpleasant and heathen things.
She was quickest at prigging buckles in the winter, when sliding was the way to get away from the Watch in First Quarter.
Let me tell you this now: you want an infant for prigging with, you take one of my other babies.
It was done by opening his grey eyes rather wide, allowing the corners of his mouth to droop, and assuming a gentle, pleading expression, resembling that of the late little Lord Fauntleroy who must, by the way, be quite old now, and an awful prig.
He continued to be a prig, and at the same time he did not clear himself of the most obscene charge of a crime against one who may have been overprivileged and unlikable, but was still-in memory, at least-a child.
Better Lucas thought her a narrow-minded, straitlaced prig than that he learn the real truth, which was that she was an idiot.
He was a round-faced, nearsighted prig with bad breath, hanging dewlaps, and a sour stomach from too much rich food.
Of course, there would be many answers to such a contention, as, for instance, that the House of Lords is largely no longer a House of Lords, but a House of tradesmen and financiers, or that the bulk of the commonplace nobility do not vote, and so leave the chamber to the prigs and the specialists and the mad old gentlemen with hobbies.
I thought you the most odious, self-satisfied, boresome elderly prig I ever met.
Very kind of him, the stiff-backed prig, with his dandified airs and West-end swagger.
Why, Thomas Chilton, do we want that child made an insufferable little prig?
They would be born so, costarred, puck and prig, the maryboy at Donnybrook Fair, the godolphinglad in the Hoy's Court.
Now, the lay is that we take them sparklers to that flash young boman prig, which is taking cover down here, with a regular green 'un, which he gets to know at Oxford.