prig
noun
a person who displays or demands of others pointlessly precise conformity, fussiness about trivialities, or exaggerated propriety, especially in a self-righteous or irritating manner.
have prigged
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present perfectof prig.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Now you'll grant it's more probable, Bill—as a man of the world, if you please— That all these should have prigged from myself than that I should have prigged from all these.
From The Heptalogia by Algernon Charles Swinburne
"I might have prigged this box of figs," the damsel said good-naturedly, "and you'd never have turned round."
From Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray
I have prigged the whole thing from the last Victorian Edition—with some slight variations….
From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
