Prig vs Preg - What's the difference?
prig | preg |
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
(archaic) A conceited dandy; a fop.
(Scotland) To haggle or argue over price.
(slang, dated) To filch or steal.
(informal) Pregnant.
* 1977 , Erich Segal, Oliver's Story , HarperTorch (2002), ISBN 0380018446,
* 1989 , Carole L. Glickfeld, "What My Mother Knows", in Useful Gifts , University of Georgia Press (1989), ISBN 9780820310411,
* 1994 , Catherine Clifton Clark, The Saturday Treat , Magna Large Print Books (1994), ISBN 9780750506496,
(informal) Pregnancy.
* 2008 , Nancy J. Howe, Dear Owie , Vantage Press (2008), ISBN 9780533158249,
* 2008 , Jonathan Kellerman, Compulsion , Ballantine (2008), ISBN 9780345465276,
* 2010 , Linda Russell, "
As nouns the difference between prig and preg
is that prig is a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner while preg is (informal) pregnancy.As a verb prig
is (scotland) to haggle or argue over price.As an adjective preg is
(informal) pregnant.prig
English
Etymology 1
Of origin.Noun
(en noun)- 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 .
Synonyms
* (person exhibiting excess propriety) prudeDerived terms
* priggishEtymology 2
Of origin.Verb
- to prig a handkerchief
Anagrams
*preg
English
Adjective
(en adjective)page 318:
- The Simpsons have a little son and Gwen is preg with number two.
page 4:
- My ma's the one who told us Frankie Frangione's mother was preg again.
page 225:
- 'Am I? Well, I'll let you in to a secret. I'm pretty sure I'm preg ."
Synonyms
*See also .Noun
(en noun)page 29:
- Pat told me once at their house that I should not play badminton because I might fall. She, who rode horses every day of her pregs !
page 308:
- She'd lost all her preg weight, but twenty-five months later was still a little poochy in front, favored baggy sweatshirts.
Notes from the new-mother zone", The Globe and Mail , 8 June 2010:
- There was nothing even approaching the near-great, so (and I can't believe I ever had this much free time in my former life) I actually designed and sewed all my preg stuff myself.