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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
prig/prɪɡ/

▶noun a self-righteously moralistic person.

– derivatives
priggery noun.

– origin C16 (in sense ‘tinker, petty thief’, later ‘disliked person’): of unknown origin.

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