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Definition of Prigs
1. prig [v] - See also: prig
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prigs
Literary usage of Prigs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1866)
"prigs are of opinion that the present age has not oyes to see into the heart of
Goethe's poetry, which will lie hidden in its mysteries for a thousand years ..."
2. Miscellanies by Charles Kingsley (1860)
"How scientific prigs shook with laughter at the notion of a flying dragon !
till one day geology revealed to them, in the Ptero- dactylus, ..."
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