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In British English, a prig (/ˈprɪɡ/) is a person who shows an inordinately zealous approach to matters of form and propriety—especially where the prig has the ability to show superior knowledge to those who do not know the protocol in question. They see little need to consider the feelings or intentions of others, relying instead on established order and rigid rules to resolve all questions.
The prig approaches social interactions with a strong sense of self-righteousness.
English, a prig (/ˈprɪɡ/) is a person who shows an inordinately zealous approach to matters of form and propriety—especially where the prig has the ability...
Prigor (Hungarian: Prigor) is a commune in Caraș-Severin County, western Romania with a population of 2,978 people. It is composed of five villages: Borlovenii...
W1A, Patty Failure in Disney's Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made, Joyce Prigger in Starz's Minx, and Kitty Winter in CBS's Elementary. Ophelia Lovibond...
not succeed and feels sorry for him, saying "What a pity it is he isn't a prig!" He also has a close relationship with Charley Bates. The Artful Dodger...
during the 16th and 17th century Netsuwan, Natty. "Massaman Curry Paste—Prig Gang Mussamun พริกแกงมัสมั่น". ThaiTable. Punyaratabandhu, Leela. "Massaman...
Nam phrik long ruea (Thai: น้ำพริกลงเรือ; pronounced [nám pʰrík lōŋ rɯa̯]) is a Thailand side-dish, a kind of fried nam phrik (dipping sauce) that is normally...
Hissing Prigs in Static Couture (stylised as H1551NG PR195 1N 5TAT1C COUTUR3) is the third and final studio album by American indie rock band Brainiac...
CV was populated almost exclusively by snivelling wretches, insufferable prigs, braggarts and outright bullies" writes the journalist Ryan Gilbey. Hoffman...
Fuddy-duddy Homophobia Obscenity Prosecution Task Force Openness to experience Prig Promiscuity Puritan Sexual abstinence Social norm Stickler Victorian morality...
Nietzsche which frequently leads him into jail or disgrace. A self-conscious prig, so given to examining all sides of a question that he becomes thoroughly...
Whig, Aikendrum Look Jolly, blythe and big, take his ain blest side and prig, And the poor, worm-eaten Whig, Aikendrum, Aikendrum For opposition's sake...
any array memory operations, is the use a Pseudo Random Index Generator (PRIG) function algorithm. There are other, less-desirable algorithms in common...
rude, self-confident) person, and uncomfortable because Fenmbi is a stuffy prig of a Harvard law graduate who revels in being an attorney who represents...
Donald Kaul writing in The Des Moines Register described Gallant as "an awful prig" and wrote that while the children he observed reading Goofus and Gallant...
Geoffrey Palmer's character Lionel in As Time Goes By. She also played Betsey Prig in a star-studded adaptation of Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit (1994) and Lady...
swinging, in this context talking about "moralizing prig", "racist prig", "fascist prig", "Auschwitz prig" or similar, so Auer. Therefore, a concept of the...
little Lord Fauntleroy who must, by the way, be quite old now, and an awful prig. In 1888, after discovering her novel had been plagiarized for the stage...
publications and glossy magazines ... there is no love like the liberal prig's love for perverts and perversions'. Victor E. Neuburg, The Popular Press...
Edward Bowle, a year ahead of Blunt at Marlborough, as "an intellectual prig, too preoccupied with the realm of ideas". Bowle thought Blunt had "too much...
philanderer with cavalier views of law. Crampas views Innstetten as a patronising prig. Years later, Effi's daughter Annie is growing up, and the family moves to...
opportunities. His tutor, a young C. S. Lewis, regarded him as an "idle prig" and Betjeman in turn considered Lewis unfriendly, demanding, and uninspiring...
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