Dry up you great prune

[Mnemon]

Dursley: I demand that you leave at once. You are breaking and entering.
Hagrid: Dry up Dursley, you great prune.

From the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

prune
noun
2 informal, derogatory An unpleasant or disagreeable person.

Lexico Dictionary

Is the term in the sense given common in your neck of the woods? Or probably it's the sort of thing could only be found in books and movies? What about dry up (meaning shut up)? Is it alive and well in English? Asking this since don't really want to get a blank stare!

 

[emsr2d2]

I think the definition is a little harsh for the way we use it in BrE. It's almost a term of endearment. If I called one of my friends a prune, it would be like calling them a "silly sausage". It's like a friendly insult!

 

[probus]

Prune is not used that way in AmE but dry up is common.

 

[Skrej]

Hagrid: Dry up Dursley, you great prune.

The author may have coupled the two expressions together as a pun or bit of word play. A prune is of course a dried up plum.

In AmE, referring to someone as a 'prune' is a mild insult towards a woman (usually older). It suggests she's dried out and wrinkled like a prune, whether she actually is or not. You'll commonly hear it as "you old prune". Although there's no logical reason why it couldn't apply to a wrinkled man, I've only encountered it as a female reference.