>>>I'm sure you did but Alex has already got me down as Terry the prig (I've been called some names in my life but never that)
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>>>>>I apologize. I meant it entirely in jest and good humour...
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>>>Then I apologize. It was not meant that way. It is not a word I'm that familiar with. Hadn't seen it in years. "Priggishness" sounded funny. No harm meant.
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>>Ah, that's alright, Alex. I'm sure you weren't being offensive. But you looked at the defos on that citation?
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>1. A person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner.
>2. (Chiefly British) A petty thief or pickpocket.
>3. Archaic A conceited dandy; a fop.
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>I meant #1 of course. Or is being a "fop" that bad? :-)

I could put up with meanings 2 (people from Liverpool have areputation for being petty crooks anyway - get that all the trime in gest) and 3 (in my youth I was a bit of a conceited dandy! :-)

But it's the "...irritatingly arrogant or smug manner" I don't like.