Translations for „prig“ in the English » German Dictionary

prig [prɪg] N pej

prig (moralist)

Tugendbold m pej

prig (pedant)

Erbsenzähler m pej inf

why must you always be such a prig?

warum bist du bloß so schrecklich kleinkariert? pej inf

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

why must you always be such a prig?

warum bist du bloß so schrecklich kleinkariert? pej inf

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

And there were plenty of people on the other side who thought the purists were being, you know, a bunch of silly prigs.

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But she was evidently a strange child -- greatly preferring the company of adults, educated patchily and -- by her own confession -- rather a prig.

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Some think him a dupe, an insufferable prig, worst of all a windbag.

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Which leads me to the second point, a difficult one to make without sounding like a prig.

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Stop being a prig, a live a little.

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She has turned me into a model man but not a prig, she is a wildly exciting lover-mistress, she is shy and witty, she is nobody's fool.

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It is being actively harassed by a bunch of do-gooding prigs (my opinion); upholders of female dignity/practical linguists (their opinion).

www.smh.com.au

Whilst certainly not a prig, he could not with justice have been placed in the saintly category.

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Black has no time to learn the names of bourgeois prigs.

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Emotionally confused in thought.... a self-conscious prig, so given to examining all sides of a question that he becomes thoroughly addled while remaining always in the same spot.

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