prig

Plural: prigs

Noun

a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
A deliberately superior person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner.
A conceited dandy; a fop.
A tinker.
A petty thief or pickpocket.

Verb

Verb Forms: prigged, prigging, prigs

To steal something, typically small items.
To filch or steal.
To ride.
To copulate.

Examples

He felt like he could PRIG a victory from his opponent with a sneaky, last-minute word.
to prig a handkerchief

Origin / Etymology

UK 16th century. Of unknown origin. Earlier noun senses ("tinker" and "thief"), as hyponyms of "undesirable person", may have informed later senses ("conceited person").

Synonyms

snob, snoot, snot, Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", Formal terms, Informal and slang terms, Jemmy-Jessamy, abduct, abstract, abstractor, appropriate, appropriator, bag, bagger, ball, bandit, bang, barbermonger, bash and grab, bauf, be with, beau, bed, beep, blade, blood, boff, boink, bone, bonk, boom-boom, boost, booster, borrow, borrower, buck, burglarize, burgle, carpet knight, cheat, chore, cockscomb, coit, coitize, commandeer, confiscate, convert, cop, cozen, crib, cribber, cutpurse, dandy, dick, diddle, dig out, dight, dike, dip, dipper, do, doink, dood, drill, dude, dudelet, eff, embezzle, enjoy, expletive deleted, exquisite, faker, fashionable, fast man, feague, feck, filch, filcher, fill, fine gentleman, fleece, flog, flogger, foist, footpad, fop, foretop, frack, frak, fribble, frick, frig, fuck, gaffle, gallant, get into someone's pants, get over on, get up in, gilravage, give someone one, give someone the time, go, go in unto, go to bed with, go with, gonoph, goody-goody, half-inch, have, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, heave, heist, heister, hit, hump, jack, jack-a-dandy, jape, jetter, jump, jump someone's bones, kidnap, kipe, knob, knock, knock off, know, know someone in the biblical sense, kyper, larcener, larcenist, lay, liberate, liberator, lie by, lie with, lift, lifter, loot, love, love up, macaroni, make, make off with, masher, metrosexual, mignon, mill, misappropriate, misappropriator, mooch, moonlight requisition, mount, nail, nick, nicker, nip, nipper, occupy, own, peculate, penetrate, petit maître, pickpocket, pickpocketer, pickpurse, pilfer, pillage, pinch, pincher, pirate, plough, plug, plunder, poach, pocket, poke, popinjay, pork, pound, pretty boy, prig, prude, pump, puritan, purloin, purloiner, puss-gentleman, raid, ransack, rape, ream, reave, relieve, rip, rip off, rob, rock, roger, root, run off with, run through, rut, sard, schlong, screw, season, seduce, see to, service, shaft, shag, shelve, slay, sleep with, slip it to, smart, smash, smush, snag, snatch, sniggle, snitch, spark, spiff, stallionize, steal, stealer, swell, swindle, swipe, swive, take, tap, tea leaf, thief, thieve, thiever, tippy, toff, tup, walk off with, wap

Scrabble Score: 7

prig: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
prig: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
prig: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

prig: valid Words With Friends Word