Definition of prig in English:

prig

noun prɪɡprɪɡ

A self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if they are superior to others.
自以为道德高尚的人；道学先生
she was religious but not a prig
Example sentencesExamples
- She will become unself-critical and demanding of others; what might, with some justification, be called a self-righteous prig.
- Bafflingly, from the few glimpses we're given of it, this haven appears anything but alluring, with Julia coming across as a self-satisfied nag and prig.
- Alfred Kinsey was raised by a prig of a father, unkind to his son, his wife and anyone else who got in the way of his bitter view of the world.
- He was excellent, as the pompous prig, but one could not really believe in the volte-face at the end, when humanity and love creeps up on him in the shape of an Indian princess.
- But, while Shinn is a good social reporter, he seems slightly confused in his attitude to Stephen: one moment he is the play's moral touchstone, and the next a prig.
- ‘I'm always glad to hear I'm annoying the uptight liberal prigs that are out there,’ says Ryan, his snark-rimed monotone bristling over the phone from LA.
- His father's ‘prime horror’ was of prigs, and yet James does seem here to be awfully priggish, a fussy and self-obsessed old man.
- Maybe you should have thought about that before you started behaving like a pompous prig.
- His colleagues take him for a moralistic prig, but we sense powerful appetites, and honesty that is less an emanation of virtue than a stay against chaos.
- Bill and Alice's identity crisis hits bottom too fast because they are never developed beyond an exotic porcelain doll and an oblivious bourgeois mate, what Victorians might have called a hysteric and a hypocritical prig.
- The ‘gimmick’ of the show is that it is relentlessly fast paced, with multiple storylines, and characters who seem at times to be superhumanly capable, and at other times to be the most annoying self-centred arrogant prigs on the planet.
- She laughed at me, Russell wrote, when I behaved like a don or a prig, and when I was dictatorial in conversation.
- Real Puritans, she opines in ‘Puritans and Prigs,’ attempted to shape society by faith and reason, in contrast to prigs who are content to announce their opinions and ‘puritanically’ damn all who disagree.
- When he prides himself on his correct behavior, he becomes a prig.
- And Bruce's childhood friend, Rachel, is a sanctimonious prig who likes to lecture Bruce about how he should live his life.
- The book, thus far, has only served to further my insistence that the character of Harry Potter is, as they say, a prig.
- ‘Yeah, you're right Sir,’ the sergeant answered with masked contempt for this young prig that was his superior officer.
- Even though the Establishment is a relic, there are many men, prigs by nature, in either party who fancy themselves a suitable part of it.
- I want to know which school this illiterate prig went to, in order to avoid it.
- Speak this truth in public and you are dismissed as a crank, a prig, a lunatic.
Synonyms
prude, puritan, killjoy, Mrs Grundy, Grundy, pedant, old maid, schoolmarm, Pharisee, hypocrite, pietist, priggish person
North American bluenose
informal goody-goody, Goody Two-Shoes, holy Joe, holy Willie, Miss Prim, stuffed shirt
literary Tartuffe
archaic precisian

Derivatives

priggery

noun ˈprɪɡəriˈprɪɡ(ə)ri

Not to be taken as priggery but I felt that I told the real story of the Blue Stream to many establishment and organizations.
Example sentencesExamples
- Close up, the music was so loud it actually hurt my ears; people always accuse me of priggery when I complain about this, but I think it's a different kind of priggery to pretend not to notice.
- No doubt priggery is a horrid thing, and the more moral the horrider.

Origin

Mid 16th century: 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 century).

A prig is a self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if they are superior to others. Perhaps they would feel less superior if they knew that a prig in the 16th century was a tinker or a petty thief. As time went on the word came to be applied to anyone who was disliked, and by the end of the 17th century it was used specifically to describe someone who was affectedly and self-consciously precise.

Rhymes

big, brig, dig, fig, gig, grig, jig, lig, pig, rig, snig, sprig, swig, tig, trig, twig, Whig, wig

Definition of prig in US English:

prig

nounpriɡprɪɡ

A self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if superior to others.
自以为道德高尚的人；道学先生
she was religious but not a prig
Example sentencesExamples
- She laughed at me, Russell wrote, when I behaved like a don or a prig, and when I was dictatorial in conversation.
- His colleagues take him for a moralistic prig, but we sense powerful appetites, and honesty that is less an emanation of virtue than a stay against chaos.
- And Bruce's childhood friend, Rachel, is a sanctimonious prig who likes to lecture Bruce about how he should live his life.
- His father's ‘prime horror’ was of prigs, and yet James does seem here to be awfully priggish, a fussy and self-obsessed old man.
- Bafflingly, from the few glimpses we're given of it, this haven appears anything but alluring, with Julia coming across as a self-satisfied nag and prig.
- Bill and Alice's identity crisis hits bottom too fast because they are never developed beyond an exotic porcelain doll and an oblivious bourgeois mate, what Victorians might have called a hysteric and a hypocritical prig.
- But, while Shinn is a good social reporter, he seems slightly confused in his attitude to Stephen: one moment he is the play's moral touchstone, and the next a prig.
- ‘Yeah, you're right Sir,’ the sergeant answered with masked contempt for this young prig that was his superior officer.
- ‘I'm always glad to hear I'm annoying the uptight liberal prigs that are out there,’ says Ryan, his snark-rimed monotone bristling over the phone from LA.
- Alfred Kinsey was raised by a prig of a father, unkind to his son, his wife and anyone else who got in the way of his bitter view of the world.
- Even though the Establishment is a relic, there are many men, prigs by nature, in either party who fancy themselves a suitable part of it.
- Real Puritans, she opines in ‘Puritans and Prigs,’ attempted to shape society by faith and reason, in contrast to prigs who are content to announce their opinions and ‘puritanically’ damn all who disagree.
- Speak this truth in public and you are dismissed as a crank, a prig, a lunatic.
- Maybe you should have thought about that before you started behaving like a pompous prig.
- The book, thus far, has only served to further my insistence that the character of Harry Potter is, as they say, a prig.
- He was excellent, as the pompous prig, but one could not really believe in the volte-face at the end, when humanity and love creeps up on him in the shape of an Indian princess.
- The ‘gimmick’ of the show is that it is relentlessly fast paced, with multiple storylines, and characters who seem at times to be superhumanly capable, and at other times to be the most annoying self-centred arrogant prigs on the planet.
- She will become unself-critical and demanding of others; what might, with some justification, be called a self-righteous prig.
- I want to know which school this illiterate prig went to, in order to avoid it.
- When he prides himself on his correct behavior, he becomes a prig.
Synonyms
prude, puritan, killjoy, mrs grundy, grundy, pedant, old maid, schoolmarm, pharisee, hypocrite, pietist, priggish person

Origin

Mid 16th century: 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 century).

单词	prig
释义	Definition of prig in English: prig noun prɪɡprɪɡ A self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if they are superior to others. 自以为道德高尚的人；道学先生 she was religious but not a prig Example sentencesExamples She will become unself-critical and demanding of others; what might, with some justification, be called a self-righteous prig. Bafflingly, from the few glimpses we're given of it, this haven appears anything but alluring, with Julia coming across as a self-satisfied nag and prig. Alfred Kinsey was raised by a prig of a father, unkind to his son, his wife and anyone else who got in the way of his bitter view of the world. He was excellent, as the pompous prig, but one could not really believe in the volte-face at the end, when humanity and love creeps up on him in the shape of an Indian princess. But, while Shinn is a good social reporter, he seems slightly confused in his attitude to Stephen: one moment he is the play's moral touchstone, and the next a prig. ‘I'm always glad to hear I'm annoying the uptight liberal prigs that are out there,’ says Ryan, his snark-rimed monotone bristling over the phone from LA. His father's ‘prime horror’ was of prigs, and yet James does seem here to be awfully priggish, a fussy and self-obsessed old man. Maybe you should have thought about that before you started behaving like a pompous prig. His colleagues take him for a moralistic prig, but we sense powerful appetites, and honesty that is less an emanation of virtue than a stay against chaos. Bill and Alice's identity crisis hits bottom too fast because they are never developed beyond an exotic porcelain doll and an oblivious bourgeois mate, what Victorians might have called a hysteric and a hypocritical prig. The ‘gimmick’ of the show is that it is relentlessly fast paced, with multiple storylines, and characters who seem at times to be superhumanly capable, and at other times to be the most annoying self-centred arrogant prigs on the planet. She laughed at me, Russell wrote, when I behaved like a don or a prig, and when I was dictatorial in conversation. Real Puritans, she opines in ‘Puritans and Prigs,’ attempted to shape society by faith and reason, in contrast to prigs who are content to announce their opinions and ‘puritanically’ damn all who disagree. When he prides himself on his correct behavior, he becomes a prig. And Bruce's childhood friend, Rachel, is a sanctimonious prig who likes to lecture Bruce about how he should live his life. The book, thus far, has only served to further my insistence that the character of Harry Potter is, as they say, a prig. ‘Yeah, you're right Sir,’ the sergeant answered with masked contempt for this young prig that was his superior officer. Even though the Establishment is a relic, there are many men, prigs by nature, in either party who fancy themselves a suitable part of it. I want to know which school this illiterate prig went to, in order to avoid it. Speak this truth in public and you are dismissed as a crank, a prig, a lunatic. Synonyms prude, puritan, killjoy, Mrs Grundy, Grundy, pedant, old maid, schoolmarm, Pharisee, hypocrite, pietist, priggish person North American bluenose informal goody-goody, Goody Two-Shoes, holy Joe, holy Willie, Miss Prim, stuffed shirt literary Tartuffe archaic precisian Derivatives priggery noun ˈprɪɡəriˈprɪɡ(ə)ri Not to be taken as priggery but I felt that I told the real story of the Blue Stream to many establishment and organizations. Example sentencesExamples Close up, the music was so loud it actually hurt my ears; people always accuse me of priggery when I complain about this, but I think it's a different kind of priggery to pretend not to notice. No doubt priggery is a horrid thing, and the more moral the horrider. Origin Mid 16th century: 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 century). A prig is a self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if they are superior to others. Perhaps they would feel less superior if they knew that a prig in the 16th century was a tinker or a petty thief. As time went on the word came to be applied to anyone who was disliked, and by the end of the 17th century it was used specifically to describe someone who was affectedly and self-consciously precise. Rhymes big, brig, dig, fig, gig, grig, jig, lig, pig, rig, snig, sprig, swig, tig, trig, twig, Whig, wig Definition of prig in US English: prig nounpriɡprɪɡ A self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if superior to others. 自以为道德高尚的人；道学先生 she was religious but not a prig Example sentencesExamples She laughed at me, Russell wrote, when I behaved like a don or a prig, and when I was dictatorial in conversation. His colleagues take him for a moralistic prig, but we sense powerful appetites, and honesty that is less an emanation of virtue than a stay against chaos. And Bruce's childhood friend, Rachel, is a sanctimonious prig who likes to lecture Bruce about how he should live his life. His father's ‘prime horror’ was of prigs, and yet James does seem here to be awfully priggish, a fussy and self-obsessed old man. Bafflingly, from the few glimpses we're given of it, this haven appears anything but alluring, with Julia coming across as a self-satisfied nag and prig. Bill and Alice's identity crisis hits bottom too fast because they are never developed beyond an exotic porcelain doll and an oblivious bourgeois mate, what Victorians might have called a hysteric and a hypocritical prig. But, while Shinn is a good social reporter, he seems slightly confused in his attitude to Stephen: one moment he is the play's moral touchstone, and the next a prig. ‘Yeah, you're right Sir,’ the sergeant answered with masked contempt for this young prig that was his superior officer. ‘I'm always glad to hear I'm annoying the uptight liberal prigs that are out there,’ says Ryan, his snark-rimed monotone bristling over the phone from LA. Alfred Kinsey was raised by a prig of a father, unkind to his son, his wife and anyone else who got in the way of his bitter view of the world. Even though the Establishment is a relic, there are many men, prigs by nature, in either party who fancy themselves a suitable part of it. Real Puritans, she opines in ‘Puritans and Prigs,’ attempted to shape society by faith and reason, in contrast to prigs who are content to announce their opinions and ‘puritanically’ damn all who disagree. Speak this truth in public and you are dismissed as a crank, a prig, a lunatic. Maybe you should have thought about that before you started behaving like a pompous prig. The book, thus far, has only served to further my insistence that the character of Harry Potter is, as they say, a prig. He was excellent, as the pompous prig, but one could not really believe in the volte-face at the end, when humanity and love creeps up on him in the shape of an Indian princess. The ‘gimmick’ of the show is that it is relentlessly fast paced, with multiple storylines, and characters who seem at times to be superhumanly capable, and at other times to be the most annoying self-centred arrogant prigs on the planet. She will become unself-critical and demanding of others; what might, with some justification, be called a self-righteous prig. I want to know which school this illiterate prig went to, in order to avoid it. When he prides himself on his correct behavior, he becomes a prig. Synonyms prude, puritan, killjoy, mrs grundy, grundy, pedant, old maid, schoolmarm, pharisee, hypocrite, pietist, priggish person Origin Mid 16th century: 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 century).
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