Prig \Prig\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Prigged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Prigging}.] [A modification of prick.]
   To haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard.
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Prig \Prig\, v. t.
   1. To cheapen. [Scot.]
      
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   2. [Perhaps orig., to ride off with. See {Prick}, v. t.] To
      filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief. [Cant]
      
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Prig \Prig\, n.
   1. A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow.
      
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            The queer prig of a doctor.           --Macaulay.
      
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   2. A thief; a filcher. [Cant] --Shak.
      
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prig
     n : a person regarded as arrogant and annoying [syn: {snob}, {snot}]
     [also: {prigging}, {prigged}]

45 Moby Thesaurus words for "prig":
   Brahmin, Grundy, Victorian, bluenose, clout, conformist, cop,
   egghead, elitist, filch, filcher, formalist, genteel, goody-goody,
   heist, highbrow, larcener, larcenist, mandarin, mid-Victorian, nab,
   name-dropper, nick, old maid, pedant, pilfer, pilferer, precisian,
   precisionist, priggish, prissy, prude, prudish, purist, puritan,
   puritanical, purloiner, snob, stealer, stick-in-the-mud,
   straitlaced, stuffed shirt, stuffy, thieve, tufthunter