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Pedant vs Prig - What's the difference?

pedant | prig |

In archaic terms the difference between pedant and prig

is that pedant is a teacher or schoolmaster while prig is a conceited dandy; a fop.

As a verb prig is

to haggle or argue over price.

pedant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) A teacher or schoolmaster.
  • * , vol. 1 ch. 24:
  • I have in my youth oftentimes beene vexed to see a Pedant [tr. pedante''] brought in, in most of Italian comedies, for a vice or sport-maker, and the nicke-name of ''Magister to be of no better signification amongst us.
  • A person who emphasizes his/her knowledge through the use of vocabulary.
  • (label) A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
  • Derived terms

    * pedantic * pedantry

    Usage notes

    * Do not confuse pedant' with '''pendant''' or ' pennant .

    See also

    * (wikipedia "pedant") *

    prig

    English

    Etymology 1

    Of origin.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner.
  • (British, archaic) A petty thief or pickpocket
  • * William Topaz McGonagall, The Christmas Goose
  • But a policeman captur'd the naughty boy, / And gave the goose to Smiggs, / And said he was greatly bother'd / By a set of juvenile prigs .
  • (archaic) A conceited dandy; a fop.
  • Synonyms
    * (person exhibiting excess propriety) prude
    Derived terms
    * priggish

    Etymology 2

    Of origin.

    Verb

  • (Scotland) To haggle or argue over price.
  • (slang, dated) To filch or steal.
  • to prig a handkerchief

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