"And a plain prig my nephew Edward," continued the old gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [The Fire Within] Reference
Your true prig is always self-conscious, but Edward was not at all self-conscious. From Wordnik.com. [The Fire Within] Reference
Lord E. 's "prig" -- see Jonathan Wild for the definition of. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2] Reference
"A prig is a handsome fellow born to create disturbance among the ladies.". From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
Marlow is a coxcombical prig, that is the truth on't; and if a man will expose himself, why, he must even take what follows. From Wordnik.com. [Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are] Reference
He does not hesitate to make his champion a prig, which is exactly what a youth so idolised by his family would be likely to become. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08] Reference
Some called him a "prig" and declared that he was "stuck up" and conceited. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work] Reference
But a prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions. ". From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
I suppose if you get cured of drinking you'll say you never did it for fear of being called a prig? ". From Wordnik.com. [Captivity] Reference
MR. JARVIS -- He sounds to me like a prig and a bore. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
Oh, ye should not prig (higgle) with Him about anything. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony] Reference
"Tell him," said he, "to begin with, that he is a prig.". From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
"Don't be such a prig, Jerry," put in Mignon, impatiently. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
Yet she was no prig -- no matter what Grace and Cora said. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
"A prig, who conceals his ignorance under dignified manners.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
That is to say, he was not a prig, or a snob, but a gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference
He must not be a coward or a weakling, a bully, a shirk, or a prig. From Wordnik.com. [The Elson Readers, Book 5] Reference
"I know no one else so fastidiously refined, without being a prig.". From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
These qualities and accomplishments, however, did not make him a prig. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
Had I said anything, they would only have called me a confounded prig. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis] Reference
To be a really good child means that the animal is a prig or unhealthy. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
All you're good for is to prig things to stuff that mouth of yours with!. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Mom's mortified that a child of her loins would marry such a type-A prig. From Wordnik.com. [Your Mother Hates Me! But It's OK Because I Hate Your Mother.] Reference
"I must have been a horrid little prig in those days," said Evadne, smiling. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
I realized that I had been something of a prig and considerable of a Pharisee. From Wordnik.com. [How to Cook Husbands] Reference
She was to be that prig Muller's wife, and he was quite satisfied that she should be. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873] Reference
Only a prig refuses to speak to a man on a train or a boat because he does not know his name. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference
"To have made a man acknowledge himself a prig once in an afternoon is enough," retorted Paul. From Wordnik.com. [The Village by the River] Reference
"You stuck-up, hypocritical, canting, conceited prig, I should like to break your nose for you.". From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Jolliffe's Boys] Reference
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