prigの意味・使い方・発音

prig

英 [prɪg] 美 [prɪɡ]

prig 自称

語源は不明。初期の意味はtinker（いじくり回す人）、tinkerer（いじくり回す人）、petty thief（小泥棒）、unpopular person（人気のない人）、後の派生語はpriggish person（小賢しい人）、pretentious person（気取った人）。

prig (n.): "precisian in speech or manners," 1753, originally in reference to theological scruples (1704), of unknown origin; earlier appearances of the same word meaning "dandy, fop" (1670s), "thief" (c. 1600; in form prigger recorded from 1560s) could be related, as could thieves' cant prig "a tinker" (1560s).
A p[rig] is wise beyond his years in all the things that do not matter. A p. cracks nuts with a steam hammer: that is, calls in the first principles of morality to decide whether he may, or must, do something of as little importance as drinking a glass of beer. On the whole, one may, perhaps, say that all his different characteristics come from the combination, in varying proportions, of three things--the desire to do his duty, the belief that he knows better than other people, & blindness to the difference in value between different things. ["anonymous essay," quoted in Fowler, 1926]
Related: Priggery.

1. He had been railed against by them as a pring and a poseur.: 彼らは彼を自慢して気取った人だと叱った。


2.The transition from libertine to pring was so complete.: 酒飲みのスケベが道学者に変身した。

4.Charles thinks he 's better than the rest of us，the self-righteous pring ！

チャールズは私たちよりも強いと思っている。本当に独りよがりなやつだ！

5.He is a self-righteous pring .

彼は独りよがりなやつだ。