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Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Prig \Prig\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Prigged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Prigging}.] [A modification of prick.]
   To haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard.
   [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Prig \Prig\, v. t.
   1. To cheapen. [Scot.]

   2. [Perhaps orig., to ride off with. See {Prick}, v. t.] To
      filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief. [Cant]

Prig \Prig\, n.
   1. A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow.

            The queer prig of a doctor.           --Macaulay.

   2. A thief; a filcher. [Cant] --Shak.

Source : WordNet®

prig
     n : a person regarded as arrogant and annoying [syn: {snob}, {snot}]
     [also: {prigging}, {prigged}]
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