Lexicographical Neighbors of Prigged
Literary usage of Prigged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1875)
"Depend upon it, she knows who prigged your pot, and won't come nigh ye for a bit
for fear you should try to make her peach. Bless yer 'eart, you'll see her ..."
2. Peter Priggins, the College Scout by Joseph Hewlett, Theodore Edward Hook (1841)
"I must say, in a parenthesis, that I think Byron prigged the ideas from the
passage alluded to above in his " Don Juan"—I mean in the letter of Donna Julia, ..."
3. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"The roll of book-thieves, if it included all those who have prigged without
detection or who have borrowed without returning, would doubtless include the ..."
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