Usually means: Please, I request or beg.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word prithee:

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  1. prithee: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prithee: Merriam-Webster
  3. prithee: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. prithee: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. prithee: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Prithee, prithee: Wordnik
  7. prithee: Wiktionary
  8. prithee: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. prithee: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Prithee, prithee: Dictionary.com
  11. prithee: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Prithee: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Prithee: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. prithee: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Prithee: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. prithee: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. prithee: FreeDictionary.org
  18. prithee: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. prithee: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Prithee: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  an archaic English interjection formed from a corruption of the phrase pray thee ([I] ask you [to]), which was initially an exclamation of contempt used to indicate a subject's triviality.

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