Meanings
- Guyanapluralplural onlyHandouts, financial aid (sometimes with the implication of having been acquired dishonestly).
"When the bullet hit Charlie, he spin like a leaf in the wind. Charlie turn a leaf spinning in the wind. Charlie boy, rustling was not for you, old man! Should've stick to pragging. Prags, boy, prags! The whole country livin' by prags."
1985 Summer, Jan Carew, “Tilson Ezekiel Alias Ti-Zek”, in New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly, volume VII, number 4, Lyme, N.H.: Kenyon Hill Publications Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 618 - Guyanapluralplural onlySmall gifts customarily given to guests.
Hosts take pride in offering their guests the best of what they have and try to laden them with choice goods as "prags" (gifts) to carry away.
1991, Brackette F. Williams, Stains on My Name, War in My Veins: Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle, Durham, N.C.; London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, pages 102–103
Origin
From mostly-obsolete prog (“provisions, food, supplies”), reflecting a Caribbean pronunciation.
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