Definition of "prigs" [prigs]

• Plural form of prig. (noun)

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• "They call earnest Christian people 'prigs'; and your mother was so surprised when I told her I belonged to the W.C. T. U., and said, 'Oh, my dear, don't; that sort of thing stamps one!'"
• "You all come off like such a bunch of prudes and prigs, you make Abigail van Buren seem like Jenna Jameson."
• "Sad to say, the new version, which is billed by express order of the Gershwin brothers' estates as "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess," is a sanitized, heavily cut rewrite that strips away the show's essence so as to render it suitable for consumption by 21st-century prigs."