priggish
/ˈpɹɪɡɪʃ/
priggish adjective: like a prig.
Adjective
priggish (comparative more priggish, superlative most priggish)
- Like a prig.
- To ride; to dance; she had adored all that. Or going long walks in the country, talking, about books, what to do with one’s life, for young people were amazingly priggish—oh, the things one had said!1923, Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street
- When the Voice of Britain is heard at nine o'clock, better far and infinitely less ludicrous to hear aitches honestly dropped than the present priggish, inflated, inhibited, school-ma'amish arch braying of blameless bashful mewing maidens!1946, George Orwell, quoting Letter in Tribune, Politics and the English Language
- Synonyms:
- prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical
priggish meaning in Urdu and Malayalam
priggish in Urdu
- دکھاوٹی, گھمنڈی, خودنما, ریا کار
priggish in Malayalam
- sanctimonious, self-righteous, holier-than-thou
- നിഷ്കൃഷ്ടമായ സദാചാരനിയമനിഷ്ഠ പാലിക്കുന്ന, അമിതചിട്ടയും മിതത്വവും പാലിക്കുന്ന, മഹാന്യായസ്ഥനെന്നു ഭാവിക്കുന്ന, ദാംഭികനായ, കടന്ന പ്രത്യക്ഷസദാചാരനിഷ്ഠ പാലിക്കുന്ന, പുണ്യാളത്തനാട്യമുള്ള
Synonyms of priggish
Forms of priggish
| comparative | more priggish |
|---|---|
| superlative | most priggish |
Origin of priggish
From prig + -ish.
Words formed from priggish
Questions about priggish
- What does priggish mean?
- Priggish means like a prig.
- What is priggish in Urdu?
- Priggish in Urdu is دکھاوٹی, گھمنڈی, خودنما. See Priggish meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is priggish?
- Priggish is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce priggish?
- Priggish is pronounced /ˈpɹɪɡɪʃ/.
Words near priggish in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: priggish (page history and authors); priggish (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); priggish (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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