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Prig vs Snob - What's the difference?

prig | snob |

As nouns the difference between prig and snob

is that prig is a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner while snob is a cobbler or shoemaker.

As a verb prig

is to haggle or argue over price.

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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    snob

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia snob)
  • (colloquial) A cobbler or shoemaker.
  • * 1929 , (Frederic Manning), The Middle Parts of Fortune , Vintage 2014, p. 57:
    • The snobs were also kind to him, and gave him a pair of boots which they assured him were of a type and quality reserved entirely for officers […].
  • (dated) A member of the lower classes; a commoner.
  • * 1844 , (Charles Dickens), Martin Chuzzlewit :
    • 'D'ye know a slap-up sort of button, when you see it?' said the youth. 'Don't look at mine, if you ain't a judge, because these lions' heads was made for men of men of taste: not snobs .'
  • * 1913 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), The Poison Belt :
    • I tell you, sir, that I have a brain of my own, and that I should feel myself to be a snob and a slave if I did not use it.
  • (informal) A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes.
  • * 1958 , (Arnold Wesker), Roots :
    • If wanting the best things in life means being a snob' then glory hallelujah I'm a ' snob .

    Derived terms

    * snobbery * snobbish * snobby

    Coordinate terms

    * posh * social climber

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