prink
Americanverb (used with object)
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prinks,
present (3rd person singular)
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prinked,
past participle, past
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prinking
present participle
verb (used without object)
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prinks,
present (3rd person singular)
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prinked,
past participle, past
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prinking
present participle
verb
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to dress (oneself, etc) finely; deck out
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(intr) to preen oneself
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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prinksimple
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prinkssimple
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have prinkedperfect
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has prinkedperfect
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am prinkingprogressive
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are prinkingprogressive
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is prinkingprogressive
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have been prinkingperfect progressive
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has been prinkingperfect progressive
Past
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prinkedsimple
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had prinkedperfect
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was prinkingprogressive
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were prinkingprogressive
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had been prinkingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of prink
First recorded in 1570–80; apparently akin to prank 2
Example Sentences
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"As much a mystery to you as it is to us, how you girls can like to gabble and prink from one week's end to the other," retorted Tom.
From An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
Only a few minutes would be needed, she declared, in which "to prink a bit."
From A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade by Charles King
Then I am going back to the hotel for an hour's rest and to prink, and afterwards into the Sporting Club at four o'clock.
From Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo by Will Grefé
"I'll give you fifteen minutes to prink up in," the Doctor told them; and away they scampered, Polly halting by David's cot long enough to wish he "were going too."
From Polly of the Hospital Staff by Emma C. Dowd
Mabbee ye'll have to prink up a little now that we've got a gentleman contractor in the ship.
From By Shore and Sedge by Bret Harte
He prinks in his violet robe of fine woven silk.
From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Eugène Sue
Pride prinks her brow for the deil to pouse.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
Police looked for a clean, well-lighted bauble prinked with 41 diamonds, 113 pearls.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week artistic Manhattan primped and prinked for a distinguished guest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Five insets adorned the board, four containing tin-types of handsome human females coifed and prinked as was the fashion 35 years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am handsomer than my mistress, says a young prinked up baggage, what pity it is I should be her servant, I go as well dressed, or better than she.
From Everybody's Business Is Nobody's Business by Daniel Defoe
Andy disregarded the shot, and prinked himself before the mirror: "Don't yer think my complexion's gettin' little better, sah?"
From The Sins of the Father A Romance of the South by Thomas Dixon
In Jersey City, painters and carpenters swarmed about inside a great pinewood saucer, patching, prinking and tidying.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like Greene, Moore writes both serious works of art and prinking entertainments.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bolt's scenario preserves the prinking wit and rolling eloquence of the play, but the plot has been smoothed and straightened in its passage through the projector.
From Time Magazine Archive
Anxiety, from the moment it began, made me neglect myself—no prinking, no housework, dust powdering my furniture.
From Woman by Magdeleine Marx
Why are you prinking so at that mirror?
From Plays by Aleksandr Nicolaevich Ostrovsky
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