prigging
- present participle of prig.
Example Sentences
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I have not, as you somewhat broadly insinuate, been prigging bits of your matchless rhetoric in order to give currency and flavour to my own more maudlin articles.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various
"Why does she not toddle out on the prigging lay; and her kids also, if they are old enough?" said Nicholas.
From Mysteries of Paris, V3 by Sue, Eugène
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 Earle, John
"Yes; but you'd have to move, and if we took an inventory, I think we"d find that Mr. Beeton has been prigging little things out of the rooms here and there.
From The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition by Kipling, Rudyard
"And instead o' the raging I was prigging for," the soft-hearted maid told her friends, "she gave me a flannel petticoat!"
From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
