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.
prigged
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past participleof prig.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof prig.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
prignouna person who displays or demands of others pointlessly precise conformity, fussiness about trivialities, or exaggerated propriety, especially in a self-righteous or irritating manner.
Example Sentences
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"Hallo!" shouted one of those at the cards, "here's Jack Brereton has prigged the ace of hearts."
From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
Ay, my father prigged sair to get one fou day in the month, and he said, 'Syne if I die sudden, there's thirty chances to one that I gang to heaven, so it's worth risking.'
From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
"She wouldn't give me a photograph for you, Michael—said you'd never know her—so I prigged this from her sitting-room last time I was there."
From The Black Opal by Katharine Susannah Prichard
And when attacked By rage of bibliophilic greed, You prigged that small Quantin Ovide, Although I prized it.
From In the Track of the Bookworm by Irving Browne
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
