Read full poem →And then they grew so jolly
I did resign the prig,
And ten of my once stately toes
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “prig”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Went for eye and went for wig
Of coward, tattler, meddler, prig.
Read full poem →Had a quarrel,
And the former called the latter 'Little Prig;
Bun replied,
Read full poem →By the Bard, what d’ye call him, that wore the black gown;
And faith I agree with th’ old prig to a hair,
For a big-belly’d bottle’s a heav’n of a care.