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Prigged vs Grigged - What's the difference?

prigged | grigged |

As verbs the difference between prigged and grigged

is that prigged is (prig) while grigged is (grig).

prigged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (prig)

    • 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

    Anagrams

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    grigged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (grig)

    • grig

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • little creature;
  • # A cricket or grasshopper.
  • #* 1926 , Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist (Ch. 5):
  • The black rooks will fly away, my son, and you'll come back as brown as a berry, and as merry as a grig .
  • # An insect in the family Prophalangopsidae, related to katydids
  • # Any small eel.
  • # The broad-nosed eel. See glut
  • heath.
    • (Audrey)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To irritate or annoy.