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Is prig a Scrabble word?

Yes, prig is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 7 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of prig?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (archaic) A conceited dandy; a fop.Examples: "A rap now at the door made all resound, / And in two bouncing blowings did rebound, / With two flash-men, a dandy, and a prig', / With whom they had been running of the rig."; "The manner of the scholar had nearly disappeared; still more the manner of the drawing-room young man. A prig would have said that he had lost his culture, and a prude that he had become coarse."Synonyms: barbermonger, beau, blade, blood, buck, carpet knight, cockscomb, dandyarchaic

2. (UK, Ireland, archaic, thieves' cant) A tinker.Examples: "These droncken Tynckers, called also Prygges."IrelandUKarchaic

3. (UK, Ireland, archaic, thieves' cant) A petty thief or pickpocket.Examples: "Out upon him! Prig, for my life, prig! He haunts / wakes, fairs, and bear-baitings."; "Oh, why didn't he rob some rich old gentleman of all his walables, and go out as a gentleman, and not like a common prig, without no honour nor glory!"; "But a policeman captur'd the naughty boy, / And gave the goose to Smiggs, / And said he was greatly bother'd / By a set of juvenile prigs."Synonyms: abstractor, appropriator, bagger, booster, borrower, cribber, faker, filcherIrelandUKarchaic

verb (English)

1. (slang, archaic) To filch or steal.Examples: "to prig a handkerchief"; "Now, this Trailer he bestrides the horse which he priggeth, and saddles and bridles him as orderly as if he were his own, and then carieth him far from the place of his breed, and ther sels him."; "Higgen hath prig'd the Prancers in his Days"Synonyms: cozen, mill, purloin, steal, abduct, abstract, appropriate, bagarchaicslang

2. (obsolete) To copulate.Examples: "Wapping thou I know does love, / Else the ruffin cly the mort; / From thy stampers then remove, / Thy drawers, and let's prig in sport."Synonyms: sleep with, Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feagueobsolete

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "prig"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "prig"?

Scrabble
7 points
P3
R1
I1
G2
Words With Friends
9 points
P4
R1
I1
G3

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