Associations to the word «Prig»

Wiktionary

PRIG, noun. A person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner.
PRIG, noun. (British) (archaic) A petty thief or pickpocket.
PRIG, noun. (archaic) A conceited dandy; a fop.
PRIG, verb. (Scotland) To haggle or argue over price.
PRIG, verb. (slang) (dated) To filch or steal.

Dictionary definition

PRIG, noun. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin