Noun:
1. A person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner.
2. Chiefly British: A petty thief or pickpocket.
3. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying
4. Archaic: A conceited dandy; a fop.
Verb:
prigged, prig·ging, prigs Chiefly British
To steal or pilfer.
Synonym:
1. A person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner.
2. Chiefly British: A petty thief or pickpocket.
3. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying
4. Archaic: A conceited dandy; a fop.
Verb:
prigged, prig·ging, prigs Chiefly British
To steal or pilfer.
Synonym:
"If father was determined to make me either a Prig or a Mule, and I am not a Prig, why, it stands to reason, I must be a Mule." -Charles Dickens
by Valda Tichenor July 8, 2006
Dave Grohl is the King of all Prigs. When black people make fun of whites it's Dave Grohl they're imitating.
by bb's May 18, 2012
by Marve turney May 18, 2022
One who demonstrates smugness at conforming to conservative ideals. Often deriding elements of modernity and change simply because it is outside of the absolutist parameters by which the prig views his surroundings. The prig elevates the artificial constructs of established rules to the point where deviation from these fabrications will be judged as "good" or "bad." Even on superficial matters.
A prig will be the guy in your neighborhood who tries to change town ordinances to prevent his neighbors from building a modern house on the same street as his precious center-hall colonial. Because in his mind, modern design is "bad", and traditional cookie-cutter homes are "good" by virtue of their normality.
by 07079 January 22, 2009
Shaming a person who is the opposite of a slut. Making them feel bad for not participating in promiscuous behaviors.
Example 1) Person 1: "He probably doesn't even have HPV. I bet he never watches porn, or has ever been to a strip club."
Person 2: "His girlfriend and him probably just talk on the phone about their feelings and shit. And I bet he's never asked for a nude; and they have never had phone sex. What a prig."
Person 3: "Stop prig shaming the poor guy!"
Example 2) Sister 1: "Aw crap Prude shaming is already in the Urban Dictionary!"
Sister 2: "Can you look up prude in a thesauraus?"
Sister 1: "Yes! Good idea! Crap I can't find any good words."
Sister 2: "Let's keep looking."
Sister 1: "How about Prig?"
Sister 2: "Fuck yeah"
Sister 1: "Prig Shaming has a good ring to it!"
Person 2: "His girlfriend and him probably just talk on the phone about their feelings and shit. And I bet he's never asked for a nude; and they have never had phone sex. What a prig."
Person 3: "Stop prig shaming the poor guy!"
Example 2) Sister 1: "Aw crap Prude shaming is already in the Urban Dictionary!"
Sister 2: "Can you look up prude in a thesauraus?"
Sister 1: "Yes! Good idea! Crap I can't find any good words."
Sister 2: "Let's keep looking."
Sister 1: "How about Prig?"
Sister 2: "Fuck yeah"
Sister 1: "Prig Shaming has a good ring to it!"
by Just an Average Jess January 5, 2023
“Remember that racist prig Karen who called 911 on the Black photographer in Central Park?”
“My aunt was such a racist prig, she wouldn’t let trick or treaters of color put their hands in the bowl of candy.”
“My aunt was such a racist prig, she wouldn’t let trick or treaters of color put their hands in the bowl of candy.”
by The Biggest Jeanius May 30, 2021