OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 13653

prig

/pɹɪɡ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
meapilas
A deliberately superior person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner.
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…
What spruce prig is that?
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