prig

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A deliberately superior person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner.
    — What spruce prig is that?
  2. A conceited dandy; a fop. archaic
    — 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.
  3. A tinker. Ireland,UK,archaic
    — These droncken Tynckers, called also Prygges.
  4. A petty thief or pickpocket. Ireland,UK,archaic
    — Out upon him! Prig, for my life, prig! He haunts / wakes, fairs, and bear-baitings.
动词 v.
  1. To filch or steal. archaic,slang
    — to prig a handkerchief
  2. To ride.
  3. To copulate. obsolete
    — 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.

词形变化

prigs plural prigs present,singular,third-person prigging participle,present prigged participle,past prigged past

词汇关系

衍生词
parish prig prig and buz prigdom priggery priggess priggish priggishly priggism prighood prig napper prig-star work on the prig
相关词
prigger prigman

词源

词源 1
UK 16th century. Of unknown origin. Earlier noun senses ("tinker" and "thief"), as hyponyms of "undesirable person", may have informed later senses ("conceited person").
词源 2
UK 16th century. Of unknown origin. Earlier noun senses ("tinker" and "thief"), as hyponyms of "undesirable person", may have informed later senses ("conceited person").
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