prigs
- present tense form of prig (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The Philistines, Puritans, Podsnaps, and Prigs Of Britain play up some preposterous rigs, And tax e'en cosmopolite charity.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 January 11, 1890 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir
Prigs of very pure water have sometimes been manufactured by just such means as this.
From The Lilac Sunbonnet by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
To the lodgers, their apartments, This abandingd female goes, Prigs their shirts and umberellas; Prigs their boots, and hats, and clothes.
From Ballads by Thackeray, William Makepeace
The Prigs rise above the people by refusing to understand them: by saying that all their dim, strange preferences are prejudices and superstitions.
From Alarms and Discursions by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
Prigs generally are: and besides now I come to think of it, Laura did look faintly amused when I asked her.
From Nightfall by Pryde, Anthony
