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Prink

verb
(past & past part. prinked; pres. part. prinking)
1.
Dress very carefully and in a finicky manner.
2.
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"





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"Prink" Quotes from Famous Books



... you think so?" replied Viola; "really? ah! here's V., ready at last. What I have to endure, V., waiting while you prink, no tongue can tell. Ta, dears, come up soon!" and she fluttered away, arm in arm with ...
— Peggy • Laura E. Richards
... 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. ...
— Viola Gwyn • George Barr McCutcheon
... [Disgusted.] There, he's gone! You'll pay for it! It's all your fault—you, with your "Mamma, dear, wait a moment, I'll just pin my scarf. I'll come directly." Yes, directly! Now we have missed the news. It's all your confounded coquettishness. You heard the Postmaster was here and so you must prink and prim yourself in front of the mirror—look on this side and that side and all around. You imagine he's smitten with you. But I can tell you he makes a face at you the moment ...
— The Inspector-General • Nicolay Gogol
... human heart contains No room for hatred and no home for pride. Happy who give with stretch of equal love This hand to Heaven and that to lowly earth, Wise there to worship with great souls above As here to sport with children in their mirth; Who own one God with kindly-reverent eyes In flowers that prink the earth, and ...
— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay


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