prig

Meanings

Noun

• A deliberately superior person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner.
• A conceited dandy; a fop.
• A tinker.
• A petty thief or pickpocket.

Verb

• To filch or steal.
• To ride.
• To copulate.

Origin

• UK 16th century. Of unknown origin. Earlier noun senses ("tinker" and "thief"), as hyponyms of "undesirable person", may have informed later senses ("conceited person").