Usually means: Self-righteously moralistic and smug.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. prig: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prig: Merriam-Webster
  3. prig: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. prig: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. prig: Collins English Dictionary
  6. prig: Vocabulary.com
  7. Prig, prig: Wordnik
  8. prig: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. prig: Wiktionary
  10. prig: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. prig: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. prig: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Prig, prig: Dictionary.com
  14. prig: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Prig: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Prig: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. prig: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. prig: Rhymezone
  19. Prig: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. prig: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Prig: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. prig: FreeDictionary.org
  23. prig: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. prig: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prig: Legal dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. prig, prig, prig, prig: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. prig: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See priggery as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A deliberately superior person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner.
▸ noun:  (archaic) A conceited dandy; a fop.
▸ noun:  (UK, Ireland, archaic, thieves' cant) A tinker.
▸ noun:  (UK, Ireland, archaic, thieves' cant) A petty thief or pickpocket.
▸ verb:  (slang, archaic) To filch or steal.
▸ verb:  To ride.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To copulate.

Similar:
snob, snot, pride, prima donna, prizer, poobah, proudling, boast, show-off, potentate, more...

Opposite:
hedonist, libertine, free spirit

Types:
pedant, snob, elitist, conformist, bourgeois, more...

Adjectives:
little, young, such, insufferable, old, conceited, righteous, solemn, pompous, moral, sanctimonious


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Similar:
snob, snot, pride, prima donna, prizer, poobah, proudling, boast, show-off, potentate, more...

Opposite:
hedonist, libertine, free spirit

Types:
pedant, snob, elitist, conformist, bourgeois, more...

Adjectives:
little, young, such, insufferable, old, conceited, righteous, solemn, pompous, moral, sanctimonious



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