PRIG

v. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

2.
v.

To cheapen. [Scot.]

3.
v.

To filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief. [Cant]

4.
n.

A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow. The queer prig of a doctor. Macaulay.

5.
n.

A thief; a filcher. [Cant] Shak.

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