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"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) A conceited dandy; a fop."
],
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"word": "dandy"
}
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"archaic"
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{
"ref": "1566, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors:",
"text": "These droncken Tynckers, called also Prygges.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A tinker."
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"(UK, Ireland, archaic, thieves' cant) A tinker."
],
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"ref": "c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:",
"text": "Out upon him! Prig, for my life, prig! He haunts / wakes, fairs, and bear-baitings.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "Oh, why didn't he rob some rich old gentleman of all his walables, and go out as a gentleman, and not like a common prig, without no honour nor glory!",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "a. 1890, William McGonagall, The Christmas Goose:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"A petty thief or pickpocket."
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"(UK, Ireland, archaic, thieves' cant) A petty thief or pickpocket."
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{
"word": "pickpocket"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pedant",
"sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "педант"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "puntičkář"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "povýšenec"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "moralista"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "puritán"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "bégueule"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
"tags": [
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"word": "Tugendbold"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Musterknabe"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
"word": "tudálékos/álszent (ember/alak)"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
"word": "whakakake"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rezonjór",
"sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "резонёр"
},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a person showing exaggerated conformity",
"word": "meapilas"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "džebčija",
"sense": "a petty thief",
"tags": [
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"word": "джебчия"
},
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a petty thief",
"word": "zloděj"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a petty thief",
"word": "tolvaj"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a petty thief",
"word": "zsebtolvaj"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a petty thief",
"word": "fosztogató"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "voriška",
"sense": "a petty thief",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "воришка"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a petty thief",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kokošar"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a petty thief",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sitni lopov"
}
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"text": "to prig a handkerchief",
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"ref": "1591, Robert Greene, The Second and Last Part of Conny-catching:",
"text": "Now, this Trailer he bestrides the horse which he priggeth, and saddles and bridles him as orderly as if he were his own, and then carieth him far from the place of his breed, and ther sels him.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1622, John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, published 1706, Scene 2, page 71:",
"text": "Higgen hath prig'd the Prancers in his Days",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1890, William Clark Russell, An Ocean Tragedy, volume 1, page 204:",
"text": "If she'd ha' taken herself off and stopped at that I dunno as I should have any occasion to grumble; but she prigged the furniture that I'd laid in agin getting married.",
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"To filch or steal."
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"(slang, dated) To filch or steal."
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"word": "cozen"
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{
"word": "mill"
},
{
"word": "purloin"
},
{
"word": "steal"
}
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"glosses": [
"To ride."
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"ref": "1707, “The Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896, page 34:",
"text": "Wapping thou I know does love, / Else the ruffin cly the mort; / From thy stampers then remove, / Thy drawers, and let's prig in sport.",
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],
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"To copulate."
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{
"word": "sleep with"
},
{
"word": "copulate with"
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