What's the difference between prig and wrig?

Prig


Definition:

  • (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.

Wrig


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To wriggle.

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