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Meanings of old prig in English

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Usage of old prig in English
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Oh, hang it all, I'm grumbling and complaining like an old prig!
Set in Silver
2
You dear prim old prig of a Hilary, don't worry.
Jaffery
3
I wouldn't go and be shut up with that old prig, poring over books forever.
Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels; Vermont
4
What was the old prig talking about?
Prisoners: Fast Bound In Misery And Iron
5
What, does the old prig threaten then?
Letters to His Son, 1749 / On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of ...
6
Brown's a dry old prig, sir.
The Buccaneer Farmer / Published in England under the Title "Ask...
7
"The old Prig worded it bravely," said he, "but in one respect he is better than most of your precise moralists.
The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 / An Historical Novel
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