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Person with a zealous approach to etiquette
English, a prig (/prɪɡ/) is a person who shows an inordinately zealous approach to matters of form and propriety—especially where the prig has the ability
Prig
Commune in Caraș-Severin, Romania
Prigor (Hungarian: Prigor) is a commune in Caraș-Severin County, western Romania with a population of 2,078 people as of 2021. It is composed of five
Prigor
American actor (1967–2014)
CV was populated almost exclusively by snivelling wretches, insufferable prigs, braggarts and outright bullies" writes the journalist Ryan Gilbey. Hoffman
Philip_Seymour_Hoffman
1996 studio album by Brainiac
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
Hissing Prigs in Static Couture
Hissing_Prigs_in_Static_Couture
English actress (born 1986)
W1A, Patty Failure in Disney's Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made, Joyce Prigger in Starz's Minx, and Kitty Winter in CBS's Elementary. Lovibond grew up
Ophelia_Lovibond
Thai dish
Nam phrik long ruea (Thai: น้ำพริกลงเรือ; pronounced [nám pʰrík lōŋ rɯa̯]) is a side dish in Thai cuisine, a kind of fried nam phrik (dipping sauce) that
Nam_phrik_long_ruea
Fictional character from the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist
out for it and feels sorry for him, saying "What a pity it is he isn't a prig!" He also has a close friendship with Charley Bates that borders on brotherhood
Artful_Dodger
English actress (1930–2001)
Geoffrey Palmer's character Lionel in As Time Goes By. She also played Betsey Prig in an adaptation of Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit (1994). During 1963, Sims
Joan_Sims
1986 musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber
The Phantom of the Opera, but you'll have to work at it. Only a terminal prig would let the avalanche of pre-opening publicity poison his enjoyment of
The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)
The_Phantom_of_the_Opera_(1986_musical)
River in Caraș-Severin County, Romania
Brezovița) is a right tributary of the river Prigor in Romania. It discharges into the Prigor near the village Prigor. Its length is 17 km (11 mi) and its basin
Iablacina
American slang or epithet
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
Egghead
2024 Thai television series
Only's mother Aey Supprawee Ponlathan (Aey) as Chatsuda (Sai) Prig Apichayar Sinithichayanon (Prig) Save Worapong Walor (Save) as Spark Tontae Tinnakorn Puwasakdiwong
Addicted_Heroin
British art historian and Soviet spy (1907–1983)
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
Anthony_Blunt
78th season of the Liga IV, the fourth tier of the Romanian football league
Team changes from the previous season Viitorul Caransebeș withdrew. Steaua Prigor, Magica Caransebeș, Ad Mediam Mehadia, Bistra Glimboca, Era S Comexim Caransebeș
2019–20_Liga_IV
Mild Thai curry
during the 16th and 17th century Netsuwan, Natty. "Massaman Curry Paste—Prig Gang Mussamun พริกแกงมัสมั่น". ThaiTable. Archived from the original on 2020-09-26
Massaman_curry
Instance of prim behaviour or talk
Fuddy-duddy Homophobia Obscenity Prosecution Task Force Openness to experience Prig Promiscuity Puritan Sexual abstinence Social norm Stickler Victorian morality
Prude
River in Caraș-Severin County, Romania
The Prigor (in its upper course also: Putna) is a left tributary of the river Nera in Romania. It discharges into the Nera near the village Prigor. Its
Prigor_(river)
Village in Wales
August 2011 – via www.bbc.co.uk. Bayley, Stephen (7 April 2026). "Only prigs and bores could object to the incongruity of Portmeirion". "IcNorthWales
Portmeirion
Class of improvised mortars from Northern Ireland
operator's shoulder. Superseded by Projected Recoilless Improvised Grenade (PRIG) in 1991. Mark 12 (1985–?): Remotely-activated mortar fired horizontally
Barrack_buster
Apparel production
Store created COMME ÇA DU MODE COMME ÇA ISM CCM COMME ÇA COLLECTION ARTISAN PRIGS PPFM Three Minutes Happiness Company Information Official Site (in Japanese)
FIVE_FOXes
Romanian royal
between right and wrong; Ileana knew. But this did not make of her a prig, she was a gay, happy child, full of life and high spirits, and when
Princess_Ileana_of_Romania
80th season of Romanian football league
the 2020–21 short tournament. Metalul Bocșa, Croația Clocotici, Steaua Prigor, Ad Mediam Mehadia, Era S Comexim Caransebeș, Agmonia Zăvoi and Bistra Glimboca
2021–22_Liga_IV
Anonymous poem
afraid, Poor Tom will injure nothing. The palsy plagues my pulses When I prig your pigs or pullen, Your culvers take, or matchless make Your Chanticleer
Tom_o'_Bedlam
Pejorative German term for a sanctimonious do-gooder
swinging, in this context talking about "moralizing prig", "racist prig", "fascist prig", "Auschwitz prig" or similar, so Auer. Therefore, a concept of the
Gutmensch
1979 film by Larry Peerce
magazine kind of prettiness, Esther emerges as a selfish, morbid little prig." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film one star out of four and
The_Bell_Jar_(film)
1967 study of pornography by Gillian Freeman
publications and glossy magazines ... there is no love like the liberal prig's love for perverts and perversions'. Victor E. Neuburg, The Popular Press
The_Undergrowth_of_Literature
1886 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett
little Lord Fauntleroy who must, by the way, be quite old now, and an awful prig. The first stage adaptation of Hodgson's novel, titled simply Little Lord
Little_Lord_Fauntleroy
Shoulder-launched anti-tank weapon
a tandem HEAT warhead capable of penetrating reactive armor. So-called PRIGs (propelled recoilless improvised grenade) were improvised warheads used
Rocket-propelled_grenade
English politician (1709–1780)
found Harris uncongenial, saying he was "a sound, solid scholar," but "a prig" and "a coxcomb" who "did not understand his own system" in Harris's work
James_Harris_(grammarian)
American children's comic strip
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
Goofus_and_Gallant
18th century English criminal (1682/83–1725)
the Lives of Wild in 1725), "prig" to refer to the profession of burglary. Fielding suggests that Wild becoming a Great Prig was the same as Walpole becoming
Jonathan_Wild
River in Romania and Serbia
Nera are the Miniș and the Prigor. The following are tributaries of the Nera (from source to mouth): Left: Nerganița, Prigor, Rudăria, Bănia, Gârbovăț
Nera_(Danube)
American poet and author (1894–1962)
ity(out of a jew a few dead dollars and some twisted laws) it comes both prigged and canted — no. 46, from Xaipe (1950) Cummings biographer Catherine Reef
E._E._Cummings
English poet (1906–1984)
opportunities. His tutor, a young C. S. Lewis, regarded him as an "idle prig" and Betjeman in turn considered Lewis unfriendly, demanding, and uninspiring
John_Betjeman
Traditional Scottish song now a nursery rhyme
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
Aiken_Drum
Unfinished novel by Benjamin Disraeli
fervour, intelligence and oratorical style but is described as “essentially a prig”, “arrogant and peremptory” and having “a complete deficiency in the sense
Falconet_(novel)
1894 German-language novel by Theodor Fontane
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
Effi_Briest
Anti-homosexual vilification campaigner
Straight Guy star Carson Kressley a "pillow biter" and "pompous little pansy prig". Laws said it was intended as tongue-in-cheek humor. Judgement: The Tribunal
Garry_Burns
British nobleman, barrister, and politician (1865–1931)
wrote of Bertrand, "Till he went to Cambridge he was an unendurable little prig." Annabel Huth Jackson, a friend of both boys, deemed Pembroke House, "an
Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell
Frank_Russell,_2nd_Earl_Russell
mess" prex, prexy Colleges for president prig One assuming moral superiority. hence priggishness, priggery, prig Dom, etc. primed Approaching a state of
Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States
Glossary_of_early_twentieth_century_slang_in_the_United_States
1994 British TV series or programme
Steed as Mrs. Todgers David Bradley as David Crimple Joan Sims as Betsey Prig Sam Kelly as Mr. Mould Peter Wingfield as John Westlock Graham Stark as Mr
Martin Chuzzlewit (1994 TV series)
Martin_Chuzzlewit_(1994_TV_series)
1848 novel by Anne Brontë
opinion of Helen was also mixed: "If Agnes Grey is a little prig, Helen Huntingdon is a prig enormous ... She is Anne Brontë's idea of noble womanhood,
The_Tenant_of_Wildfell_Hall
Person who is fussy while old-fashioned, traditionalist, conformist, or conservative
sense of 'to act in a foolish or ineffectual manner'. Fuddle duddle Prude Prig Tom Dalzell The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional
Fuddy-duddy
English biologist (1825–1895)
old bone man, called Mantell, who never could be off complaining as Owen prigged his bones. People did say that the old man never got over it, and Owen
Thomas_Henry_Huxley
1997 EP by Brainiac
Label Touch & Go Records Producer Jim O'Rourke Brainiac chronology Hissing Prigs in Static Couture (1996) Electro-Shock for President (1997) Attic Tapes
Electro-Shock_for_President
1995 EP by Brainiac
Brainiac chronology Bonsai Superstar (1994) Internationale (1995) Hissing Prigs in Static Couture (1996) Brainiac EP chronology Internationale (1995) Electro-Shock
Internationale_(EP)
American comedy television series (2022–2023)
meaningful relationships in the most unusual places. Ophelia Lovibond as Joyce Prigger Michael Angarano as Glenn (season 1) Jessica Lowe as Bambi Oscar Montoya
Minx_(TV_series)
Coming Busta Rhymes Solo Debut Deathshead Extermination Crisis - Hissing Prigs in Static Couture Brainiac - Jo Dee Messina Jo Dee Messina - On Avery Island
1996_in_music
English actress (1892–1995)
1963 Comedy Playhouse Woman Episode: Shamrot 1964 Martin Chuzzlewit Mrs. Prig TV series 1964 Laughter from the Whitehall Nannie Cartwright Episode: All
Kathleen_Harrison
Idiom for excessively bureaucratic procedures or regulations
Jobsworth License Raj Micromanagement Paperwork Reduction Act Paternalism Prig Purple crocodile Regulatory impact analysis Sludge theory "What is red tape
Red_tape
Irish writer (1911–1966)
comfortable, bourgeois life rather than romance and heroics: 'I may be a prig', he replied, 'but I know what I like. Why can't I marry Bridie and have
Flann_O'Brien
Fictional character from Coronation Street
Graeme Kay discussed Ken's evolution within the show: "He began as a bit of a prig, in the eyes of working-class father Frank, but matured into a sound family
Ken_Barlow
Hiking trail in Romania
Sarmizegetusa 290 km 6 Terra Banatica Banat Bucova, Caransebeș, Reșița, Prigor, Domogled-Valea Cernei National Park 232 km 7 Terra Romana The Roman Land
Via_Transilvanica
Experiment Zero Recording engineer Phono-Comb Fresh Gasoline Brainiac Hissing Prigs in Static Couture CD, LP Touch and Go Recording engineer (track 5) Dis-
Steve_Albini_discography
Horse race
Duncombe 1762 Cadet 1st Baron Grosvenor 1763 Antinous 3rd Duke of Grafton 1764 Prig 3rd Duke of Ancaster 1765 Traction Sir James Lowther 1766 South East Sir
1200_Guineas_Stakes
Play by George Bernard Shaw
National Gallery. Her fiancé is a ruthless scoundrel, her father is a bumbling prig, and it turns out that the man she is in love with is Hector, Hesione's husband
Heartbreak_House
County of Romania
Marga Măureni Mehadia Mehadica Naidăș Obreja Ocna de Fier Păltiniș Pojejena Prigor Răcășdia Ramna Rusca Montană Sacu Sasca Montană Sichevița Slatina-Timiș
Caraș-Severin_County
English founder of Quakers (1624–1691)
Fox early character as shy, idealistic and judgemental: "something of a prig" and "one who loved men in the aggregate but who strongly disapproved of
George_Fox
American indie rock band
Deal (of The Breeders). The following year, their third album, Hissing Prigs in Static Couture, was released on the Touch & Go label. All three of their
Brainiac_(band)
the Algarve 1994 Smokescreen Mrs. Nash 6 episodes Martin Chuzzlewit Betsy Prig 3 episodes 1994-1998 As Time Goes By Madge 9 episodes 1995 Pie in the Sky
Joan_Sims_filmography
"vespine") wit and adduces it in support of his contention that Marcus was a "prig". Birley, following the textual and epigraphic citations, concludes that
Early_life_of_Marcus_Aurelius
1999 studio album by Melvins
3:41 4. "We We" 0:57 5. "Up the Dumper" 2:23 6. "Mary Lady Bobby Kins" 3:37 7. "Jew Boy Flower Head" 6:06 8. "Lone Rose Holding Now" 2:23 9. "Prig" 8:47
The_Bootlicker
Oxford awards for Greek or Latin
Penistan Simpson for Characters in the Style of Theophrastus: the Snob, the Prig, and the Pedant. 1948: John Francis Bligh for Thomas Erskine's Speech in
Gaisford_Prize
1926 novel by H. G. Wells
a New Angle and calls it the "most pretentious" of "what became known as Prig Novels". The same source lists cover artists "William Rothenstein and David
The_World_of_William_Clissold
1952 film by Brendan J. Stafford
but routine mystery ... Frankly, the Armchair Detective is an insufferable prig, alternately patronizing and then snubbing the Scotland Yard bunglers. Dudley
The_Armchair_Detective
Surname list
footballer Prigg v. Pennsylvania, 1842 United States Supreme Court case Prig, an insult This page lists people with the surname Prigg. If an internal
Prigg
Football tournament season
(4-Caransebeş zone) 7. AS AD Mediam Mehadia (4-Caransebeş zone) 5–1 AS Steaua 2018 Prigor (4-Caransebeş zone) 8. AS Magica Caransebeş (4-Caransebeş zone) 5–4 AS Şoimii
2020–21 Cupa României preliminary round
2020–21_Cupa_României_preliminary_round
Fictional character in P. G. Wodehouse humorous stories
marriage entanglements. Jeeves (Arthur Treacher) seemed more of a pompous prig than a brilliant helper. Notably, when Bertie grows a moustache that Jeeves
Bertie_Wooster
2000 compilation album by Melvins
B "Mary Lady Bobby Kins" "Jew boy Flower head" "Lone rose Holding now" "Prig" (the silence following is not present and neither is the cover of "smells
The_Trilogy_Vinyl
Narcissus gallaecicus Fern.Casas Narcissus × gatensis J.F.Álvarez, Castro Prig., P.Gómez-Murillo & Áng.Sánchez Narcissus × georgemawii Fern.Casas Narcissus
List_of_Narcissus_species
1964 British TV series or programme
episodes) Frederick Farley as Employer (3 episodes) Kathleen Harrison as Mrs. Prig (3 episodes) Ruth Porcher as Poor woman (3 episodes) Peter Stephens as Mr
Martin Chuzzlewit (1964 TV series)
Martin_Chuzzlewit_(1964_TV_series)
1995 French film
writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala drops the ball with this droopy, snail-paced prigs-in-wigs movie. It doesn't help that Nick Nolte is such a lox as Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson_in_Paris
Approach to historiography
Pages. Retrieved 25 April 2021. Harrison, Edward (September 1987). "Whigs, prigs and historians of science". Nature. 329 (6136): 213–214. Bibcode:1987Natur
Whig_history
2021 studio album by Melvins
"Revolve" Stoner Witch 3:51 32. "Suicide in Progress" Nude With Boots 2:54 33. "Prig" The Bootlicker 1:50 34. "The Bit" Stag 5:15 35. "Civilized Worm" (A) Senile
Five_Legged_Dog
Australian radio presenter (1935–2025)
for the Straight Guy fame, a "pillow-biter" and a "pompous little pansy prig". On 17 July 2007, Laws' gold-plated microphone was stolen. The Sennheiser
John_Laws
1964 novel by Louis Auchincloss
"The Rector of Justin is not just another debunking novel about a Victorian prig," because through Auchincloss' detailing of Prescott's internal contradictions
The_Rector_of_Justin
Play written by T. S. Eliot
the spiritual life, when he is plainly, in Eliot's words, "an insufferable prig." By the time of the 1956 revival, Kenneth Tynan was referring to "this has-been
The_Family_Reunion
American journalist
Marshall Loeb, described Seligman as "an acerbic slayer of (mostly liberal) prig-headedness ... [who] uses elegance and trenchant wit to wage his never-ending
Daniel_Seligman
Detective fiction writer (joint pseudonym)
of Vance, Manfred Lee calling him, with typical vehemence, 'the biggest prig that ever came down the pike'." As Van Dine had done earlier with Philo Vance
Ellery_Queen
1953 film by C.M. Pennington-Richards
the time as the rudest man on TV, Harding comes over today as an irascible prig." In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated
The_Oracle_(1953_film)
English physician and plant collector
Burney, having earlier described him as "an upright, stern old man... an old prig," later recorded when she was his patient: "He really has been... amazingly
John_Fothergill_(physician)
Romanian newspaper
other militant women, among them Lucrezzia Karnabatt, E. Marghita, Maura Prigor, Laura Vampa and Aida Vrioni. Having endorsed the creation of a journalists'
Adevărul
Thai film actor and musician (born 1953)
(Seua phuu khaao) (2005) Ghost Variety (Variety phii chalui) (2005) Nam Prig Lhong Rua (Navy Boys) (2006) Thai Thief (2006) Somlek Sakdikul at IMDb v
Somlek_Sakdikul
2019 novel by Harriet Tyce
"deplorable". The Guardian describes Carl as "an appalling self-righteous prig" who has been "gaslighting", and expressing "parental showboating". The book
Blood_Orange_(novel)
2005 novel by Harry Thompson
relationships as ideas. His account of the prickly friendship of the Tory prig Fitzroy and the cold-hearted Radical Darwin owes much to other novels of
This_Thing_of_Darkness
British weekly newspaper (1797-1798)
He described anyone in Great Britain who held these values as a "pedant prig" who "...disowns a Briton's part, And plucks the name of England from his
Anti-Jacobin
1994 studio album by Brainiac
navigation Larry Nicki - mastering The Puddles - photography "Brainiac : Hissing Prigs In Static Couture - Treble". August 4, 2008. DuLuca, Leo (June 9, 2016)
Bonsai_Superstar
American architect (1839–1912)
in a place where one was filled with sawdust, like a doll, and became a prig, a snob, and an ass. As the smoke blew away, he said: "Of course you don't
Frank_Furness
1951 short story by Vladimir Nabokov
criticizes her party guests, to which Cynthia fiercely reacts by calling him a "prig" and "snob." This ends their relationship. The story returns to the narrator's
The_Vane_Sisters
1943 historical novel
Milton was after her dowry and when it did not follow he proved a domineering prig, unresponsive to her sensuousness or her down-to-earth wit. It was a spiritual
The Story of Marie Powell: Wife to Mr. Milton
The_Story_of_Marie_Powell:_Wife_to_Mr._Milton
2000 compilation album by Plaid
Checks" – 5:29 "Yak" – 5:51 "Scoobs in Columbia" – 5:34 "Chirpy" – 4:47 "Prig" (as 'Atypic') – 4:52 "Eshush" (as 'Balil') – 4:42 "Blah" (as 'Atypic') –
Trainer_(album)
1908 self-help book by Arnold Bennett
such as Milton's Paradise Lost. Bennett also warns against: Becoming a prig and insisting others follow the same improvement programme—he says that it
How_to_Live_on_24_Hours_a_Day
Topics referred to by the same term
League Unlimited episode) "This Little Piggy", a song in the album Hissing Prigs in Static Couture This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
This Little Piggy (disambiguation)
This_Little_Piggy_(disambiguation)
British independent Member of Parliament (1872–1946)
class. In 1894 she was one of the seven founding members of the "Associated Prigs". This was the unofficial name of a women's discussion group that met on
Eleanor_Rathbone
Topics referred to by the same term
Romania: Putna, Suceava, a commune in Suceava County Putna, a village in Prigor Commune, Caraș-Severin County Putna, a village in Bolotești Commune, Vrancea
Putna
Annual television award
Attendant Cassandra "Cassie" Bowden HBO Max Ophelia Lovibond Minx Joyce Prigger Edi Patterson The Righteous Gemstones Judy Gemstone HBO Jean Smart Hacks
Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy
Satellite_Award_for_Best_Actress_–_Television_Series_Musical_or_Comedy
American writer (1865-1937)
inaccurate article" that depicted kindergarten as "a machine for turning out prigs, children sentimentalists, and infant poseurs." The article stirred heated
Marion_Hamilton_Carter
1967 American film
launch. Strago's immediate superior in THRUSH, Mr. Thaler, arrives. Strago, a prig who is sexually disgusted by the slinky, kinky Diketon, lusts for the innocent
The_Spy_in_the_Green_Hat
English theologian and philosopher (1865–1954)
College and founding member of the discussion group known as the Associated Prigs, who died in 1942; they had no children. (editor), St Anselm, The Devotions
Clement_Charles_Julian_Webb
1964 novel by William Farquhar Conton
optimism", calling the novel's main character, Kamara, an "unbelievable prig". Contemporary reviewer Mercedes Mackay describe the novel as a "promising
The_African_(Conton_novel)
PRIG
PRIG
Surname or Lastname
English (Midlands)
English (Midlands) : probably a variant of Pridmore.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : nickname from Middle English, Old French vertu ‘moral worth’; ‘goodness’ (Latin virtus ‘manliness’, ‘valor’, ‘worth’). This may have been bestowed on a good or pious person, it may alternatively have been a sarcastic nickname for a prig, or it may have been borne by someone who had played the part of Virtue in a medieval mystery play.
PRIG
PRIG
Girl/Female
Italian Spanish
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Evolved
Male
Celtic
, victory.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Successful
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Like a Flower
Boy/Male
French
Gift of God.
Boy/Male
Assamese, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu
God's Grace; Gods Blessing
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Embodiment of Beloved
Girl/Female
Tamil
Adritya | அதà¯à®°à¯€à®¤à¯à®¯à®¾
The Sun
Girl/Female
Indian
A star
PRIG
PRIG
PRIG
PRIG
PRIG
n.
Want of ardor, animation, vivacity, etc.; coldness of affection or of manner; dullness; stiffness and formality; as, frigidity of a reception, of a bow, etc.
n.
A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow.
n.
A thief; a filcher.
n.
The condition or quality of being frigid; coldness; want of warmth.
a.
Like a prig; conceited; pragmatical.
n.
Roguery; thievery.
v. t.
To filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief.
n.
Priggism.
v. i.
To haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard.
v. t.
To cheapen.
imp. & p. p.
of Prig
n.
Want of heat or vigor; as, the frigidity of old age.
n.
The quality or state of being priggish; the manners of a prig.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Prig