(v. i.) To haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard.
(v. t.) To cheapen.
(v. t.) To filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief.
(n.) A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow.
(n.) A thief; a filcher.
Example Sentences:
(1) Today, all those Ralphs and Toms, Percys and Horaces strike us as the most appalling prigs: we have forgotten the world from which they sprang.
(2) He could take the most pitiful souls – his CV was populated almost exclusively by snivelling wretches, insufferable prigs, braggarts and outright bullies – and imbue each of them with a wrenching humanity.
(3) Trierweiler is forever dashing into bathrooms and collapsing while Hollande is an unfeeling prig who either ignores her or tells her to stop being so melodramatic.
(4) Only the stuffiest prig would say "Whom are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?"
(5) Bovine and equine sera were screened for poliovirus-reactive immunoglobulins (PRIgs) by means of neutralization and precipitation reactions with type 1 poliovirus.
(6) Neutralization and precipitation reactions with six mono-specific antibodies obtained by absorbing antiserum with each of the six different PRIgs-resistant virus mutants revealed that three antibodies were active in precipitation reaction while the others were substantially ineffective.
(7) I wanted to ban puddings from this column completely, but my editor in her wisdom said this was preposterous and that I should stop being such a prig.
(8) On the basis of the results obtained and the findings reported to date, the mechanism of production of PRIgs in bovine and equine sera was discussed.
(9) Bovine serum B1826 and B36 were found to contain such PRIgs from their reactivity to various PRIgs-resistant mutants of type 1 poliovirus origin.
(10) This current of life-giving absurdity electrified them and gave those earnest young prigs the means to change over the years, even after they had become successful.
Prog
Definition:
(v. i.) To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek for advantage by mean shift or tricks.
(v. i.) To steal; to rob; to filch.
(v. i.) To prick; to goad; to progue.
(n.) Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies.
(n.) A vagrant beggar; a tramp.
(n.) A goal; progue.
Example Sentences:
(1) The interaction with these lipids, the rotational conformations of the 17-acetyl group, and invertible conformations of the cyclohexenone of PROG were discussed on the basis of the elliptical strength of the Cotton effect and energy estimation of the preferred conformers.
(2) Simultaneous determination of unconjugated 16 alpha-hydroxypregnenolone (16 alphaOH-Preg), 16 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone (16 alphaOH-Prog) and 16 alpha-hydroxydehydroepiandrosterone (16 alphaOH-DHEA) in fetal and neonatal plasma was performed utilizing a newly developed radioimmunoassay.
(3) Before or at 1 month after each treatment, tumor response was evaluated according to the following categories: (1) complete response (CR) (no visible abnormality, and negative biopsy specimen and cytology); (2) partial response (PR) (degree of obstruction or size of tumor reduced more than 50%); (3) some response (SR) (degree of obstruction or size of tumor reduced 20% to 50%); and (4) progression (PROG) (degree of obstruction or size of tumor reduced by less than 20%).
(4) PROG (P less than 0.025) was lower and E2 (P less than 0.025) and E3 (P less than 0.05) were higher in PCO pregnancies than in HA pregnancies.
(5) Large-scale clinical trials have established that lowering blood pressure in patients with mild to moderate diastolic hypertension results in a decreased incidence of stroke and, to a lesser extent, a reduction in incidence of coronary heart disease [MacMahon SW, Cutler JA, Furberg CD, et al: Prog Cardiovasc Dis 1986; 29 (suppl 1): 99-118].
(6) Morphological evidence suggests that approximately two thirds of the bipolar cells and most amacrine cells are destroyed by the kainic acid lesion (Ingham and Morgan, Neuroscience, 9 (1983) 165-181), and pharmacological logic (Morgan, Prog.
(7) Earlier this year we wrote about Gnod , Salford's finest purveyors of ambient sludge, prog-metal and murky motorik psych-drone space-rock.
(8) The model was generated assuming a finite time-course of cross-bridge attachment [Huxley, Prog.
(9) The Michaelis constants were not different for the pro-val and progly substrates in control and prolidase deficient fibroblasts.
(10) We evaluated the direct effect of 17 beta-estradiol (E2) and of progesterone (Prog) on secretion of PTH from bovine parathyroid tissue in vitro.
(11) Statistically highly significant circadian rhythms were found in plasma testosterone, 17-OH Prog and DHEA-S, concentrations in men and women of all three age groups with a phase advance of over 2 hours in DHEA-S with advancing age.
(12) Plasma progesterone (PROG), testosterone (TEST), oestrone (E1) and 17 beta-oestradiole (E2) concentrations were determined in collared doves living under natural conditions in young as well as sexually inactive animals further in different phases of the reproduction cycle; measurements were made by radioimmunoassay following Sephadex LH 20 chromatography.
(13) If one of these alterations had appeared with the toxic, the Prog action would have diminished it gradually until its disappearance.
(14) The interaction between the A-ring and the 17-acetyl groups of progesterone (PROG) and various concentrations of distearoyl-, dipalmitoyl-, dioleoyl- and diarachidoyl-L-alpha-phosphatidylcholines, and dipalmitoyl-L-alpha-phosphatidyl-DL glycerol in methanol and chloroform solutions and its preferred conformational assignments in the presence of those lipids were examined qualitatively by circular dichroism on the basis of PROG spectra in the wavelength regions of 260-400 nm.
(15) The adrenal venous PROG concentration and secretory rate of female hamsters infused with 10% dextran while collecting adrenal venous blood did not differ significantly from those of the non-infused animals, suggesting that this amount of blood loss (1 ml) does not influence PROG secretion.
(16) There were no consistent changes of plasma 17 alpha,20B PROG during this period.
(17) Conclusive evidence for the relation between cell type and hormone content was found only in one type: in type 6, stromal glandular cells show an extremely intensive PROG synthesizing activity.
(18) The ovarian, endometrial and pituitary effects of 300 micrograms norethisterone (NET) and 30 micrograms levonorgestrel (L-NOG) administered orally on cycle days 7-10 were investigated in two groups of 10 women each, by daily analysis of plasma estradiol (E2), progesterone (PROG), immunoreactive luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) in a pretreatment control cycle and during NET or L-NOG administration.
(19) The present work tended to evaluate the effect of streptozotocin diabetes on estradiol (E2) stimulation of Prog.
(20) The amounts of 17 alpha-OH-Prog and F increased in all groups, especially in IL cells.