Prig

(v. i.) To haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard.

(v. t.) To cheapen.

(v. t.) To filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief.

(n.) A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow.

(n.) A thief; a filcher.

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• This man is difficult to judge; he was a man of poor physique, naturally timid, and a prig. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• You're a great man--you're a sublime fellow; but you're a prig, a conceited noodle with it all, Joe! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But a prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I suppose you don't even know what a prig is? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Very kind of him, the stiff-backed prig, with his dandified airs and West End swagger. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I never can make out what you mean by a prig, said Rosamond. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Oh, tallish, dark, clever--talks well--rather a prig, I think. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Oh, why didn't he rob some rich old gentleman of all his walables, and go out as a gentleman, and not like a common prig, without no honour nor glory! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• If father was determined to make me either a Prig or a Mule, and I am not a Prig, why, it stands to reason, I must be a Mule. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• If I had time, and was not in mortal dread of some prating prig of a servant passing, I would know what all this means. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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