English-Thai Dictionary

prig

N คนที่ คิด ว่า ตนเอง มี ศีลธรรม เหนือ ผู้อื่น  prude puritan snob kon-ti-kod-wa-tua-ang-me-sin-la-tam

 

priggism

N ความพิถีพิถัน 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PRIG

n. 1. A pert, conceited, saucy, pragmatical fellow.
2. A thief.

 

PRIG

v.i.To haggle about the price of a commodity.

 

PRIG

v.t.To filch or steal.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PRIG

Prig, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Prigged; p. pr. & vb. n. Prigging.] Etym: [A modification of prick. ]

 

Defn: To haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard. [Prov. Eng. & Scot. ]

 

PRIG

PRIG Prig, v. t.

 

1. To cheapen. [Scot. ]

 

2. Etym: [Perhaps orig. , to ride off with. See Prick, v. t.]

 

Defn: To filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief. [Cant ]

 

PRIG

PRIG Prig, n.

 

1. A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow. The queer prig of a doctor. Macaulay.

 

2. A thief; a filcher. [Cant ] Shak.

 

PRIGGERY

PRIGGERY Prig "ger *y, n.

 

Defn: Priggism.

 

PRIGGISH

PRIGGISH Prig "gish, a.

 

Defn: Like a prig; conceited; pragmatical. -- Prig "gish *ly, adv. -- Prig "gish-ness, n.

 

PRIGGISM

PRIGGISM Prig "gism, n.

 

1. The quality or state of being priggish; the manners of a prig. Ed. Rev.

 

2. Roguery; thievery. [Obs. ] Fielding.

 

PRIGHTE

PRIGHTE Prigh "te, obs.

 

Defn: imp. of Prick. Chaucer.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

prig

prig |prig prɪɡ | ▶noun a self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if superior to others. DERIVATIVES prig ger y |ˈprigərē |noun ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: of unknown origin. The earliest sense was ‘tinker ’ or ‘petty thief, ’ whence ‘disliked person, ’ esp. ‘someone who is affectedly and self-consciously precise ’ (late 17th cent. ).

 

priggish

prig gish |ˈprigiSH | ▶noun self-righteously moralistic and superior: a priggish little pedant | she was priggish about sex. DERIVATIVES prig gish ly adverb, prig gish ness noun

 

Oxford Dictionary

prig

prig |prɪg | ▶noun a self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if they are superior to others. DERIVATIVES priggery noun ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: of unknown origin. The earliest sense was ‘tinker ’ or ‘petty thief ’, whence ‘disliked person ’, especially ‘someone who is affectedly and self-consciously precise ’ (late 17th cent. ).

 

priggish

prig |gish ▶adjective self-righteously moralistic and superior: a priggish little pedant | she was priggish about sex. DERIVATIVES priggishly adverb, priggishness noun

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

prig

prig noun the notion that librarians are typically prigs is ridiculous: prude, puritan, killjoy; informal goody-goody, goody two-shoes.

 

priggish

priggish adjective Miss Sinclair couldn't possibly have been as priggish as she seemed way back then: self-righteous, moralistic, holier-than-thou, sanctimonious, prudish, puritanical, prim, straitlaced, stuffy, prissy, governessy, narrow-minded; informal goody-goody, starchy. ANTONYMS broad-minded.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

prig

prig noun prude, puritan, killjoy, Mrs Grundy, Grundy, pedant, old maid, schoolmarm, Pharisee, hypocrite, pietist, priggish person; N. Amer. bluenose; informal goody-goody, Goody Two-Shoes, holy Joe, holy Willie, Miss Prim, stuffed shirt; literary Tartuffe; archaic precisian.

 

priggish

priggish adjective self-righteous, holier-than-thou, smug, sanctimonious, moralistic, sententious, prudish, puritanical, prim, strait-laced, tight-laced, stuffy, starchy, prissy, Victorian, schoolmarmish, schoolmistressy, old-maidish, narrow, narrow-minded, censorious, Pecksniffian, Pharisaic, hypocritical; informal goody-goody; rare Grundyish. ANTONYMS broad-minded, permissive.

 

Duden Dictionary

Prignitz

Prig nitz Substantiv, feminin , die |Pr i gnitz |die Prignitz; Genitiv: der Prignitz Landschaft in Nordostdeutschland

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

prig

prig /prɪɡ /名詞 C ｟けなして ｠(潔癖症で他人を見下す )堅物 （かたぶつ ）; 物知りぶった人 ; うぬぼれ屋 .

 

priggish

prig gish /prɪ́ɡɪʃ /形容詞 ｟けなして ｠(礼儀作法などの点で )うるさい, 堅苦しい .～ly 副詞 ～ness 名詞