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==English==

===Etymology===
UK 16th century. Of {{unk|en|title=unknown}} origin. Earlier noun senses ("tinker" and "thief"), as hyponyms of "undesirable person", may have informed later senses ("conceited person").

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/pɹɪɡ/}}
* {{audio|en|En-au-prig.ogg|a=AU}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɪɡ|s=1}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# A [[deliberately]] [[superior]] person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated [[conformity]] or [[propriety]], especially in an irritatingly [[arrogant]] or [[smug]] manner.
#: {{syn|en|goody-goody|prude|puritan}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1676|author=w:George Etherege|title=w:The Man of Mode|section=act 3, scene 3|passage=What spruce '''prig''' is that?}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1849|author=w:William Makepeace Thackeray|title=Doctor Birch|chapter=A Hopeless Case|passage=I have always had a regard for dunces; — those of my own school-days were amongst the pleasantest of the fellows, and have turned out by no means the dullest in life; whereas many a youth who could turn off Latin hexameters by the yard, and construe Greek quite glibly, is no better than a feeble '''prig''' now, with not a pennyworth more brains than were in his head before his beard grew.}}
#* {{RQ:Eliot Middlemarch|passage=A '''prig''' is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.}}
# {{lb|en|archaic}} A conceited [[dandy]]; a [[fop]].
#: {{syn|en|Thesaurus:dandy}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1822|author=Thomas Dolby|title=Benchiana|page=67|passage=A rap now at the door made all resound, / And in two bouncing blowings did rebound, / With two flash-men, a dandy, and a '''prig'''', / With whom they had been running of the rig.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1891|author=Thomas Hardy|title=Tess of the D'Urbervilles|page=140|passage=The manner of the scholar had nearly disappeared; still more the manner of the drawing-room young man. A '''prig''' would have said that he had lost his culture, and a prude that he had become coarse.}}
# {{lb|en|UK|Irish|archaic|thieves}} A [[tinker]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1566|author=w:Thomas Harman|title=A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors|passage=These droncken Tynckers, called also '''Prygges'''.}}
# {{lb|en|UK|Irish|archaic|thieves}} A petty thief or [[pickpocket]].
#: {{syn|en|Thesaurus:thief|Thesaurus:pickpocket}}
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Winter's Tale|act=IV|scene=iii|passage=Out upon him! '''Prig''', for my life, '''prig'''! He haunts / wakes, fairs, and bear-baitings.}}
#* {{RQ:Dickens Oliver Twist|passage=Oh, why didn't he rob some rich old gentleman of all his walables, and go out as a gentleman, and not like a common '''prig''', without no honour nor glory!}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=a. 1890|author=w:William McGonagall|title=The Christmas Goose|passage=But a policeman captur'd the naughty boy, / And gave the goose to Smiggs, / And said he was greatly bother'd / By a set of juvenile '''prigs'''.}}

====Derived terms====
* {{l|en|parish prig}}
* {{l|en|priggery}}
* {{l|en|priggish}}
* {{l|en|priggishly}}
* {{l|en|priggism}}
* {{l|en|prig and buz}}
* {{l|en|prig napper||thief taker}}
* {{l|en|prig-star}}
* {{l|en|work on the prig}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|en|prigger}}
* {{l|en|prigman}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|a person showing exaggerated conformity}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|педант|m}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|puntičkář|m}}, {{t|cs|povýšenec|m}}, {{t+|cs|moralista|m}}, {{t|cs|puritán|m}}
* French: {{t+|fr|bégueule|m|f}}
* German: {{t+|de|Tugendbold|m}}, {{t|de|Musterknabe|m}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|tudálékos}}/{{t+|hu|álszent}} ({{t|hu|[[ember]]/[[alak]]}})
* Maori: {{t|mi|whakakake}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|резонёр|m}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|meapilas}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|a petty thief}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|джебчия|m}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|zloděj}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|tolvaj}}, {{t+|hu|zsebtolvaj}}, {{t+|hu|fosztogató}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|воришка|m}}
* Serbo-Croatian: {{t+|sh|kokošar|m}}, {{t|sh|sitni lopov|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Verb===
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|slang|dated}} To [[filch]] or [[steal]].
#: {{syn|en|cozen|mill|purloin|Thesaurus:steal}}
#: {{ux|en|to '''prig''' a handkerchief}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1591|author=Robert Greene|title=The Second and Last Part of Conny-catching|passage=Now, this Trailer he bestrides the horse which he '''priggeth''', and saddles and bridles him as orderly as if he were his own, and then carieth him far from the place of his breed, and ther sels him.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1622|year_published=1706|author=[[w:John Fletcher (playwright)|John Fletcher]]|title=w:Beggars' Bush|section=Scene 2|page=71|passage=Higgen hath '''prig'd''' the Prancers in his Days}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1890|author=w:William Clark Russell|title=An Ocean Tragedy|url=https://archive.org/details/oceantragedy01russ|volume=1|page=204|passage=If she'd ha' taken herself off and stopped at that I dunno as I should have any occasion to grumble; but she '''prigged''' the furniture that I'd laid in agin getting married.}}
# To [[ride]].
# To [[copulate]].
#: {{syn|en|sleep with|Thesaurus:copulate with}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1707|year_published=1896|chapter=The Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort|title=Musa Pedestris|editor={{w|John Stephen Farmer|Farmer, John Stephen}}|url=https://archive.org/details/musapedestristhr00farmuoft|page=34|passage=Wapping thou I know does love, / Else the ruffin cly the mort; / From thy stampers then remove, / Thy drawers, and let's '''prig''' in sport.}}

===References===
* {{R:Grose 1788}}
* {{R:Farmer|volume=|page=297–301}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=gipr|IGRP|PIRG|grip}}

{{C|en|People}}

==Scots==

===Etymology===
Of {{unk|sco|title=unknown}} origin.

===Verb===
{{sco-verb}}

# To [[haggle]] or [[argue]] over price.
#* {{quote-text|sco|year=1513|author={{w|Gavin Douglas|Douglas, Gavin}}|title=w:Eneados
|passage=Sum treitcheoure crynis the cunye, and kepis corne stakkis; Sum '''prig''' penny, sum pyke thank with preny promit.}}
#* {{quote-text|sco|year=1786|author=Robert Burns|title=The Brigs Of Ayr
|passage=Men wha grew wise '''priggin''' owre hops and raisins,}}

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