prig

English - Turkish

Definition of prig in English Turkish dictionary: özünü beğenmiş; ukala; bilgiç; {i} doğruluk; priggish ukalâ; hırsız; priggishlytitizlikle; priggishnesskibirlilik; {i} fazilet; {i} kendini beğenmiş; çalmak; aşırmak; biçimci ve tutucu ukalâ; yürütmek; {i} ahlaken kendini üstün gören kuralcı kişi, herkese ahlak hocalığı yapan kimse; ukalâ
priggish: kendini beğenmiş
priggishness: hırsızlık
priggishness: kibirlilik
priggish: ukalâ
priggish: {s} bilgiçlik taslayan
priggish: {s} ukalâca
priggishly: ukala bir şekilde

English - English

Definition of prig in English English dictionary: A conceited dandy; a fop; A person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner; A petty thief or pickpocket; To haggle or argue over price; {n} a conceited fellow; {v} to steal, haggle; To filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief; To cheapen; disapproval If you call someone a prig, you disapprove of them because they behave in a very moral way and disapprove of other people's behaviour as though they are superior. someone who behaves in a morally good way and shows that they disapprove of the way other people behave - used to show disapproval (Probably from prig (17-19 centuries), perhaps from prig (16-19 centuries)); To haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard; {i} meticulous or strict person; pedant, one who concerns himself with trivial details; arrogant person; prissy person, preener; A thief; a filcher; A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow; a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
priggish: conceited
priggish: {a} pert, conceited, pragmatical, saucy
priggish: disapproval If you describe someone as priggish, you think that they are a prig
priggish: Like a prig; conceited; pragmatical
priggish: {s} meticulous, strict; pedantic, overly concerned with trivial details; arrogant, conceited; prissy, overly concerned with one's appearance
priggish: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts
priggish: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
priggishly: in a priggish manner; "this professor acts so priggishly--like a moderator with a gavel!"
priggishly: meticulously, strictly; arrogantly, conceitedly; pedantically, in a petty manner; in the manner of being overly concerned with one's appearance
priggishly: in a priggish manner; "this professor acts so priggishly--like a moderator with a gavel!
priggishness: exaggerated and arrogant properness
priggishness: The state or quality of being priggish
priggishness: {i} meticulousness. strictness; pedanticalness, pettiness; conceit, arrogance; primness, state of being overly concerned with one's appearance
priggishness: priggery
prigs: plural of prig