Definition of Prig

v. i.1.To haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard.
[imp. & p. p. Prigged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Prigging .]
v. t.1.To cheapen.
2.To filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief.
n.1.A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow.
The queer prig of a doctor.
- Macaulay.
2.A thief; a filcher.


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