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▪ I. † prig, n.1 Obs.
Also 5–6 prigg, pryg(ge (7 prydg).
[App. another form of sprig n. (nail). Cf. prag n.1]
(?) = sprig, brad (usually collective).
1410in Rogers Agric. & Prices (1882) III. 447 (Wye) Tileprig 6200 {at} m/10. 1411Ibid., Wogh prig nails... Tyle prig. 1415Ibid., (Charles & Rowhill) Prignail. 1420Ibid. 448 (Lullington) Prigg. 1460Ibid. 453 Prigs. 1490Churchw. Acc. St. Dunstan's, Canterb. (1885) 12 Item payde for prygge and lathe iiijd. 1548Hawkhurst Ch. Acc. in Archæol. Cant. V. 61 Payde..for prygge and nayls iiijs iiijd. 1611MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., For a thousand of prydgs xviij d.
Comb.1540MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., Payd for a pryg hammer ij d.
▪ II. prig, n.2 Now dial.|prɪg|
Also 6 pryg, pl. prygges.
[Origin unascertained. Cf. pig n.2]
A small pan of brass or tin; see also quot. 1674.
1511Pleadings Duchy Lancaster (1896) XXXII. 53, v brasse pottes, iij pannes, iij prigges. 1573Lanc. Wills (Chetham Soc.) III. 60 Ffyve pannes and twoo prygges or lyttel pannes. 1636Farington Papers (Chetham Soc.) 15 Apperteyninge to the Kitchen. 2 Priggs. 1674–91Ray S. & E.C. Words 110 A Prigge, a small Pitcher: this is I suppose, a general word in the South Country. 1703Thoresby Let. to Ray Gloss. (E.D.S.), Prigge, a little brass skellet. 1896Leeds Merc. Suppl. 16 May (E.D.D.), Put t' prig on t' fire.
▪ III. prig, n.3 (a.)|prɪg|
Also 6 prygg, 7–8 prigg.
[In branch I originally Rogues' Cant, of obscure origin: cf. the cognate vb. prig v.1 It is not clear whether the other senses (which appear more than a century later) arose out of 1, or represent, as is possible, a different word; in either case, the history of their sense-development is uncertain; they are here arranged chronologically. (If there should prove to be two separate words, the derivatives priggish, priggism, prigster, will also consist each of two distinct words.)
In the following passage Baxter plays on this word as agreeing with the initial letters of PRoud IGnorance, in which, and the want of Christian Love, he sees the cause of excommunication, persecution, and schism.
1684Baxter Twelve Argts. §16. 29 The worldly PR. IGs. and the unruly PR. IGs. by Persecution, and by causeless Separation and Alienation, have done the hurt.]
I.
†1. Rogues' Cant. A tinker. Obs.
1567Harman Caveat (1869) 59 These dronken Tynckers, called also Prygges, be beastly people.
2. slang. A thief. Now usually a petty thief.
1610Rowlands Martin Markall (Hunter. Cl.) 42 That did the prigg good that binged in the kisome. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. iv. iii. 108 Hee..married a Tinkers wife..and (hauing flowne ouer many knauish professions) he setled onely in Rogue: some call him Autolicus. Clowne. Out vpon him: Prig, for my life Prig: he haunts Wakes, Faires, and Beare⁓baitings. 1651J. Shirley (title) An Excellent Comedy, Called, The Prince of Priggs Revels, or, The Practices of that grand Thief Captain James Hind. 1743Fielding J. Wild i. v, The same endowments have often composed the statesman and the Prig: for so we call what the vulgar name a Thief. 1831Lincoln Her. 28 Jan., Serenely thieved the nightly prigs. 1838Dickens O. Twist xliii, Why didn't he rob some rich old gentleman.., and go out as a gentleman, and not like a common prig, without no honour nor glory! 1842Miall in Nonconf. II. 66, I am a prig, Sir: I lives by prigging whatever I can get. 1874W. S. Gilbert Charity ii, D'you sit at quarter-sessions..and sentence poor prigs?
II. slang and colloq.
†3. A spruce fellow, a dandy, a fop; a coxcomb.
1676G. Etherege Man of Mode iii. iii, What spruce prig is that? 1688Shadwell Sqr. Alsatia i. i, Thou shalt shine and be as gay as any Spruce Prigg that ever walk'd the Street. 1709Steele Tatler No. 77 ⁋1 A Cane is Part of the Dress of a Prig, and always worn upon a Button. 1788V. Knox Winter Even. I. iii. iv. 264 The dealers in silks and sattins might adopt some good hints from prigs in pulpits. 1835[see priggish a. 2].
†4. A vague term of dislike or disrespect. Obs.
(But perh. closely allied to 6, as a censorious and didactic person who made himself disliked.)
1679Shadwell True Widow Ded. A ij b, A sensless, noisie Prig. 1695Congreve Love for L. v. vi, What does the old Prig mean? I'll banter him, and laugh at him, and leave him. 1700T. Brown Amusem. Ser. & Com. 135 There's that Old Prig my Father,..as sound as a Roach still. 1712Addison Spect. No. 403 ⁋5 Well, Jack, the old Prig [Louis XIV of France] is dead at last. 1730Royal Remarks 21 They said..Doctor Puzzlepate [was] an Old Put, and my self an Old Prigg. 1749Chesterfield Lett. (1792) II. 218 What does the old prig threaten then?
†5. In late 17th and early 18th c.: Applied to a puritanical person, a precisian in religion, esp. a nonconformist minister. Obs.
In quot. 1693, ‘Young Mr. Prig’ may have been so called in sense 3, from his self-adornment. But Jeremy Collier treats him as a Dissenting minister: see his Short View Immor. Stage iii. (1698) 102 and Defence (1699) 65.
[1693Congreve Old Bach. iv. ii, Young Mr. Prig..he is a wanton young Levite, and pampereth himself up with Dainties, that he may look lovely in the Eyes of Women;..while her good Husband is deluded by his godly Appearance.] a1704T. Brown Sat. French King Wks. 1730 I. 59 In thy old age to dwindle to a Whig, By heaven, I see, thou'rt in thy heart a prig. 1720–1Lett. fr. Mist's Jrnl. (1722) II. 212 He may be as subtile as a young Prig, who held forth for two long Hours..against Episcopacy. 1744Z. Grey Notes Butler's Hudibras i. i. 10, I have heard of..a Precisian.., who after the Restoration, rebuking an orthodox clergyman for the length of his hair;..he [the clergyman] replied, ‘Old Prig, I promise you to cut my hair up to my ears, provided you will cut your ears up to your hair’. 1752Adventurer No. 12 ⁋11 A formal prig, of whom he knew nothing but that he went every morning and evening to prayers. 1752A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 8 The Sectaries, who are in Possession of this Place, are entitled Prigs.
6. A precisian in speech or manners; one who cultivates or affects a propriety of culture, learning, or morals, which offends or bores others; a conceited or self-important and didactic person. (Only in later use including women.)
1753Smollett Ct. Fathom (1784) 57/1 The templar is, generally speaking, a prig; so is the abbé: both are distinguished by an air of petulance and self-conceit, which holds a middle rank betwixt the insolence of a first-rate buck, and the learned pride of a supercilious pedant. a1771Gray Lett. Alphabet Wks. 1843 V. 220 Now a pert Prig, he perks upon your face, Now peers, pores, ponders, with profound grimace. 1778Johnson 7 Apr. in Boswell, Harris, however, is a prig, and a bad prig... (Boswell) He says things in a formal and abstract way to be sure. a1805A. Carlyle Autobiog. 441 The clergy..are in general..divided into bucks and prigs... The prigs are truly not to be endured, for they are but half learned, are ignorant of the world, narrow-minded, pedantic, and overbearing. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. I. 256 The school was kept by a conscientious prig of the ancient system. 1828Blackw. Mag. XXIII. 372 The peculiar impudence ingrained into the natural disposition of the prig. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. xi, A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions. 1877Mrs. Forrester Mignon I. 39 The ideal woman is a prig. 1879Trollope Thackeray v. 129 The virtues are all there with Henry Esmond, and the flesh and blood also... But still there is left a flavour of the character which Thackeray himself tasted when he called his hero a prig. 1897Academy Suppl. 20 Nov. 111/1 A prig may repent of his or her ways and yet not be able to turn from them, and so at last we find her confirmed in her priggishness.
b. fig. Applied to a thing considered priggish.
1873Browning Red Cott. Nt.-cap 49 Only, I could endure a transfer..just Of Joyeux church, exchanged for yonder prig, Our brand-new stone cream-coloured masterpiece.
7. attrib. or Comb. in sense 6.
a. = ‘of a prig or prigs’, as prig-manufactory;
b. appositive = ‘that is a prig’, as prig-parson, prig-preacher, prig-puppy, prig-scoundrel;
c. prig-napper (Rogues' Cant): see quot. a 1700.
a1700B.E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Prig-napper, a Horse-Stealer; also a Thief-taker. [So1725New Cant. Dict.] 1728Swift Let. Publ. Dublin Wkly. Jrnl. 14 Sept., To laugh at all the prig puppies that could not speak Spanish. 1785J. Trusler Mod. Times I. 139 A smart prig preacher of twenty-five. 1824–9Landor Imag. Conv. xiii. Wks. 1846 I. 80/2 Cowper.. possessed a rich vein of ridicule,..opening it on prig parsons, and graver and worse impostors. 1889Sat. Rev. 16 Feb. 184/2 The subtle and fatal influences of the prig-manufactory. 1904A. Lang Tennyson viii. 187 He is that venomous thing, the prig-scoundrel.
B. adj. (from attrib. use in 7) = priggish, precise, proper, exact. rare.
1775S. J. Pratt Liberal Opin. lxxxv. (1783) III. 129 Stockings..and buckles..of so modest..a pattern, that they utterly discarded all the vagaries of the mode; yet were they..prig, prim, prue, and parsonly. 1872H. W. Beecher in Chr. World Pulpit II. 341 That..which is contained in our system of trig and prig theology.
Hence (from 6) ˈprigdom, ˈprighood, the state or condition of a prig or prigs; ˈpriggess rare, a female prig.
1878Besant & Rice Monks Thelema iv, So you really think..that my son..will drop the livery of prigdom, and talk..like other people. 1884J. Hawthorne N. Hawthorne & Wife I. 120 He steered equally clear of the Scylla of prigdom, and the Charybdis of recklessness. 1890Longm. Mag. Mar. 532 Unwholesome little pragmatical prigesses. 1906Daily Chron. 31 Aug. 3/2 George Washington's heroism has always hovered uncomfortably near the region of prighood.
▪ IV. prig, v.1|prɪg|
[In sense 1, goes with prig n.3 2, both being orig. Rogues' Cant. Branch II may be a different and even earlier word (in which case the derivatives prigging, etc. will also consist of two words); but nothing has been ascertained as to the origin in either sense.
(Some compare sense 4 with It. preg-are to pray, beg.)]
I.
1. trans. To steal. (Thieves' Cant.) Now, usually said of petty theft.
(In early instances often in reference to horse-stealing.)
1561[implied in prigger1 and prigman]. 1567Harman Caveat (1869) 42 A Prigger of Prauncers be horse stealers; for to prigge signifieth in their language to steale. 1591Greene Conny Catching ii. Wks. (Grosart) X. 78 He bestrides the horse which he priggeth, and saddles and bridles him as orderly as if he were his own. 1616Bullokar Eng. Exp., Prigge, to filch, to steale. 16..Tom O'Bedlam's Song (L.), The palsie plague these pounces When I prig your pigs or pullen. 1812Sporting Mag. XXXIX. 210 It was Billy's boast, that he had not for many years worn a single article of dress that had not been prigged. 1840Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. 1. Jackd. Rheims, And the Abbot declared that, ‘when nobody twigg'd it, Some rascal or other had popp'd in, and prigg'd it!’ 1891E. Roper By Track & Trail xxvi. 387 Anecdotes..‘prigged’ from comic papers. Mod. Schoolboy slang, Who has prigged my pencil?
2. ? To plunder, to cheat.
1819Sporting Mag. III. 213 The President..shook hands with me, and trusted I should soon prig the London cocknies.
II.
3. intr. To chaffer, to higgle or haggle about the price of anything. Sc. and north. dial.
1513[implied in prig-penny]. c1620Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 54, I will not prigge, I will not you deceive. 1632Rutherford Lett. (1671) 447 As the frank buyer who cometh near to what the seller seeketh, useth at last to refer the difference to his will, and so cutteth off the course of mutual prigging. Madam, do not prigge with your frank⁓hearted..Lord. 1681S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1710) 78 The love of Pelf..makes them prigg for Milk and Eggs, Put in their Broth, Cocks-halfs, and Legs. 1755Ramsay Ep. J. Clerk 16 In comes a customer, looks big, Looks generous, and scorns to prig. 1786Burns Brigs of Ayr 186 Men wha grew wise priggin owre hops an' raisins. 1824Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl. 387 Some merchants alter not the price of their goods, let the buyer prigg as he may. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Prig, to plead hard in a bargain, to higgle in price.
b. fig. To haggle about terms, to try to drive a hard bargain.
1632[see prec.]. a1688J. Renwick Serm., etc. (1887) 431 O come and lay all down at his feet and prigg not with Him. 1692Scot. Presbyt. Eloquence (1738) 106, I see Christ will not prigg with me. 1703D. Williamson Serm. bef. Gen. Assemb. Edin. 59, I pray that none of Nobility or Gentry prigg with God in this matter.
c. trans. to prig down, to try to beat down (the price demanded, or the person who demands it).
1853in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v., [He'l] ettle sair to prig you doun. 1903Ibid., He's be sure to prig doon yor price.
4. intr. To make entreaty, beg, importune.
1714Wodrow Corr. (1843) I. 553 Many think it was very great imprudence..to prigg so with the Assembly from the throne upon this head. 1755R. Forbes Ajax 25 (Poems Buchan) Fat gars you then, mischievous tyke! For this propine to prig? 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxiv, To tell us that the poor lassie behoved to die, when Mr John Kirk, as civil a gentleman as is within the ports of the town, took the pains to prigg for her himsell. 1901G. Douglas Ho. w. Green Shutters 297 He prigged and prayed for a dose o' the whiskey.
†5. intr. (Sense uncertain: quot. not Sc.). Obs.
1623Webster Devil's Law-Case i. ii, Let none of these come at her..Nor Deuce-ace, the wafer woman, that prigs abroad With musk-melons, and malakatoones.
Hence ˈpriggable a., that may be pilfered.
1900‘Maud Maryon’ How Garden grew 103 Lay aside, from hedgerows, corners of field or other prigable parts, some rolls of turf.
▪ V. † prig, v.2 Obs. or dial.
[Origin obscure; perh. variant of prick v. Cf. Sc. prig-me-dainty = prick-me-dainty, prigga trout a stickleback.]
1. intr. slang. To ride; = prick v. 11.
1567Harman Caveat (1869) 84 To prygge, to ride. 1609Dekker Lanthorne & Candle-light C ij. 1611L. Barry Ram-Alley i. B iv, Some of our clients will go prig to hell Before our selues. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Prigging, Riding.
2. U.S. To dress up, adorn: cf. prick v. 20, prink v.2 2.
1845S. Judd Margaret i. iv, He's no more use than yer prigged-up creepers [vines]. |