[ noun ] a person regarded as arrogant and annoying <noun.person>
Prig \Prig\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Prigged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prigging}.] [A modification of prick.] To haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Prig \Prig\, v. t. 1. To cheapen. [Scot.]
2. [Perhaps orig., to ride off with. See {Prick}, v. t.] To filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief. [Cant]
Prig \Prig\, n. 1. A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow.
The queer prig of a doctor. --Macaulay.
2. A thief; a filcher. [Cant] --Shak.
Though his Ness starts out as a wholesome prig, he is also a bit of a publicity hound himself and maybe not all that different from his nemesis Capone.