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.
Значення
значень: 4A deliberately superior person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner.
Tugendbold, Musterknabe
резонёрrezonjór
(архаїчне)A conceited dandy; a fop.
(Ірландія, Британія, архаїчне)A tinker.
(Ірландія, Британія, архаїчне)A petty thief or pickpocket.
воришкаvoriška
- a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
Приклади
речень: 1If you often think of yourself as a saint, you may simply be a prig.
ruЕсли Вы часто думаете о себе как о святом, Вы, вероятно, просто самодовольный человек.
Переклади
мов: 4За значеннями 2
За значеннями 1
Походження
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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