Triggery vs Priggery - What's the difference?
triggery | priggery |
Easily caused; tending to go off very frequently.
* 2001 , Douglas R. Mauro and Kevin J. Schmidt, Essential SNMP , O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., ISBN 9780596000202,
Tending to upset.
* antiabortion.com, notice to members, quoted in Miriam Grossman, Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student , Sentinel (2007), ISBN 978-1-59523-045-4,
Trigger mechanisms, taken collectively.
* 1876 August, J. W. Greene, “Distance of Combs from Centre to Centre”, in the American Bee Journal , Volume XII, Number 8, Thomas G. Newman (publisher),
As nouns the difference between triggery and priggery
is that triggery is trigger mechanisms, taken collectively while priggery is (dated) thievery or roguery.As an adjective triggery
is easily caused; tending to go off very frequently.triggery
English
Adjective
(en adjective)page 134:
- The last thing you want is a threshold that is too triggery (one that goes off too many times) or a threshold that won’t go off until the entire building burns to the ground.
page 86:
- A trigger warning serves as a heads up that the post contains some possibly upsetting material. Triggery subjects include, but are not limited to, pregnant women, children, clinic protesters, insensitive people, ... anniversaries, etc.
Noun
(-)page 210:
- Now bear in mind there are no clap traps nor inconvenient and cumbersome triggery about all this, simply an inch hoop iron with saw-tooth notches cut 1½ inches apart and a frame made bevel edged all the entire length on the under side;