1736 Canting Dictionary / P / PRINCE Prig [rogue]
a King of the Gypsies; also Top-Thief, or Receiver General.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Prince Prig in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).