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.
prigging
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present participleof prig.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Nothing like slang, Ned, with the police or the prigging gentry.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 by Various
All the boys and girls around, Who go out prigging rags and phials, Know Jemmy Catsnatch!!! well, Who lives in a back slum in the Dials.
From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley
A walking morte is one unmarried: a doxe, a dell, and a kynchin morte, are all females; and a kynchen co is a young boy not thoroughly instructed in the art of canting and prigging.
From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle
And yet for all this, to be prigging up for an hour, when any of my old chums come to dine with me!
From International Short Stories American by Various
The drying and bleaching linen was an unceasing attraction to rascals like Autolycus, who had a "pugging tooth"—that is, a prigging tooth.
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle
