prig
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- noun
- /prɪg/
- Offensive
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mojigato
- Everyone at work finds Mark a bit of a prig for always insisting on following the rules to the letter.
- a little prig
You know, And now it's about the kind of prigs who are always up my ass.
- You know, And now it's about the kind of prigs who are always up my ass.
Examples
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She's an arrogant little prig.
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Mr. Darcy, you're an insufferable prig.
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Oh, a public school prig could do better than that.
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I suppose you don't know what a prig is.
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Oh, don't be such a prig!
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Yes, I suppose all school teachers are prigs.
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Billy Sr. was always kind of a self-righteous prig, but his son is just nuts.
Blog text (19) -
"It's because you're a sanctimonious little prig."
Academic text (2011) -
Romney has a whiff of the prig about him that I can't get past.
Blog text (3) -
Pasha Antipov, you're an awful prig.
Antonyms
How Self-Righteous
Surface Forms
Etymology
Prig may come from an old slang verb meaning 'to steal' — people once used prig to mean taking small things. One idea is that the meaning later changed so a prig became someone who 'acts as if they are better than others', which is why the word now means a self-righteous, annoying person.