| 单词 | priggish |
| 释义 | priggish (once / 12494 pages) adj Priggish people are snobby and self-righteous. An overly prim and proper movie character who's always telling other people what they should do is priggish. If you offer your opinion on how your friends should live their lives, and especially if you're very uptight and snooty, people will think you're priggish. The adjective priggish comes from the eighteenth century prig, "precise in speech and manners," which was also used to mean "religiously devout." Earlier, a prig was "a petty thief." WORD FAMILYpriggish: priggishly, priggishness+/prig: prigged, prigging, priggish, prigs/priggishness: priggishnesses USAGE EXAMPLESLonely, priggish Mrs. Griffiths gets roaring drunk after a keen disappointment. Seattle Times(Nov 27, 2016) The famously strait-laced 17th-century sectarians who helped settle America weren’t nearly as priggish as you might think, a leading Puritan scholar says. Washington Times(Oct 21, 2016) A leading Puritan scholar says the famously strait-laced 17th-century sectarians who helped settle America weren’t nearly as priggish as you might think. Seattle Times(Oct 20, 2016) adj exaggeratedly proper Syn prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian proper marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness |
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