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Prink

verb

(past & past part. prinked; pres. part. prinking)

Dress very carefully and in a finicky manner.

Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive. Synonyms: attire, deck out, deck up, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, overdress, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up. "The young girls were all fancied up for the party" Antonyms: dress down, underdress.

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"Prink" Quotes from Famous Books

... gracefully out over the tree-tops, came to rest upon a lofty bough in the grove across the road. They sat for a long time without speaking, these two women, watching him preen and prink, a bit of lively blue against the newborn green. Then he flew away. He "moved on,"—a ...

— Viola Gwyn • George Barr McCutcheon

... and liked to prink; so she got out the new hat, and spent some time in smoothing her braids and putting on her blue ribbons. But when all was ready, and the boys getting impatient, she found her shadow, with a sun-bonnet on, standing by the door, as if to prevent her ...

— Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI - An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. • Louisa M. Alcott

... all occasions, and would tread heavily on my poor handkerchief, if I took to dropping it. Miss Murgatroyd tells me that he is a confirmed hater of feminine beauty; upon which poor Miss Susannah takes a surreptitious prink into the gold-framed mirror over the reception-room mantelpiece, and says, plaintively: "Oh, do not say that, Amelia!" But Amelia does say "that"; and a ...

— The Mistress of Shenstone • Florence L. Barclay

... out over the tree-tops, came to rest upon a lofty bough in the grove across the road. They sat for a long time without speaking, these two women, watching him preen and prink, a bit of lively blue against the newborn green. Then he flew away. He "moved ...

— Viola Gwyn • George Barr McCutcheon

... You look all right. There's never anybody but muckers there Saturday nights. We'll miss it all if you stop to prink." ...

— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes

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