| Prig 1. (v. i.) To haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard. 2. (v. t.) To cheapen. 3. (v. t.) To filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief. 4. (n.) A pert, conceited, pragmatic fellow. 5. (n.) A thief; a filcher. Thesaurus Entries Brahmin, Grundy, Victorian, bluenose, clout, conformist, cop, egghead, elitist, filch, filcher, formalist, genteel, goody-goody, heist, highbrow, larcener, larcenist, mandarin, mid-Victorian, nab, name-dropper, nick, old maid, pedant, pilfer, pilferer, precisian, precisionist, priggish, prissy, prude, prudish, purist, puritan, puritanical, purloiner, snob, stealer, stick-in-the-mud, straitlaced, stuffed shirt, stuffy, thieve, tufthunter |