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prig

noun

1 prig

A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.

synonyms: snob, snoot, snot.

Roget 887: blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, roisterer, brawler; fanfaron; braggart etc. (boaster) 884; bully, terrorist, rough; ... show more

Roget 855: affectation; affectedness etc. adj.; acting a part etc. v.; pretense etc. (falsehood) 544, (ostentation) 882; boasting ... show more

Dutch: snob
Polish: snob


verb

Roget 791: steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim, crib, cabbage, palm; abstract; ... show more

Moby thesaurus: Brahmin, Grundy, Victorian, bluenose, clout, conformist, cop, egghead, elitist, filch, filcher, formalist, genteel, goody-goody, heist, highbrow, larcener, larcenist, mandarin, mid-Victorian ... show more.

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