| 单词 | prig preacher |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprig preacher C1. Appositive (in sense A. 4), as prig preacher, prig-scoundrel. ΚΠ 1728 J. Swift Let. in Dublin Weekly Jrnl. 14 Sept. 731/1 To laugh at all the prig puppies that could not speak Spanish. 1785 J. Trusler Mod. Times I. 139 A smart prig preacher of twenty-five. 1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 80/2 Cowper..possessed a rich vein of ridicule,..opening it on prig parsons, and graver and worse impostors. 1904 A. Lang Tennyson viii. 187 He is that venomous thing, the prig-scoundrel. 1919 V. Lindsay Chinese Nightingale 49 If any prig-saint would outvote all mankind. < as lemmas |
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