prig
A deliberately superior personA deliberately superior person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner.
» If you often think of yourself as a saint, you may simply be a prig.
Если Вы часто думаете о себе как о святом, Вы, вероятно, просто самодовольный человек.
Значение
значений: 4A deliberately superior person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner.
Tugendbold, Musterknabe
резонёрrezonjór
(архаичное)A conceited dandy; a fop.
(Ирландия, Британия, архаичное)A tinker.
(Ирландия, Британия, архаичное)A petty thief or pickpocket.
воришкаvoriška
- a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
Примеры
предложений: 1If you often think of yourself as a saint, you may simply be a prig.
Если Вы часто думаете о себе как о святом, Вы, вероятно, просто самодовольный человек.
Переводы
языков: 4По значениям 2
По значениям 1
Происхождение
UK 16th century. Of unknown origin. Earlier noun senses ("tinker" and "thief"), as hyponymUK 16th century. Of unknown origin. Earlier noun senses ("tinker" and "thief"), as hyponyms of "undesirable person", may have informed later senses ("conceited person").
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