One who demonstrates smugness at conforming to conservative ideals. Often deriding elements of
modernity and change simply because it is outside of the
absolutist parameters by which the
prig views his surroundings. The prig elevates the artificial constructs of established rules to the point where deviation from these fabrications will be judged as "good" or "bad." Even on superficial matters.
A
prig will be the guy in your neighborhood who tries to change town
ordinances to prevent his neighbors from building a modern house on the same street as his precious center-hall colonial. Because in his mind, modern design is "bad", and traditional
cookie-cutter homes are "good" by virtue of their normality.
