What does "prig" mean?

Prig: To cheapen. [Scot.]

Additional senses

  1. 2.Etym: [Perhaps orig., to ride off with. See Prick, v. t.] To filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief. [Cant]
  2. 3.A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow. The queer prig of a doctor. Macaulay.
  3. 4.A thief; a filcher. [Cant] Shak.

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