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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Play your part, poor pretty doll; Feast and frolic, pose and prink; There's the Morgue to end it all, And it's later than you think.
From Ballads of a Bohemian by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
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
You don’t know how to prink, do you?”
From Flaming June by A. Gilbert
I must go home an' prink Elly Precious an' Carruthers.
From Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings by Annie Hamilton Donnell
What I have to endure, V., waiting while you prink, no tongue can tell.
From Peggy by Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry
Pride prinks her brow for the deil to pouse.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
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
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
Dressing over nicely: prinked up as if he came out of a bandbox, or fit to sit upon a cupboard's head.
From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Then the Cardinal went to his favourite sun-parlour, and stretching on a limb, he stood his feathers on end, and sunned, fluffed and prinked until he was immaculate.
From The Song of the Cardinal by Gene Stratton-Porter
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
In Jersey City, painters and carpenters swarmed about inside a great pinewood saucer, patching, prinking and tidying.
From Time Magazine Archive
How beautifully she lays on Luna's blanc d'Espagne, and seems to be setting herself out and prinking up for to-morrow in the powder-mantle of moonshine which is flung around her!
From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
On the wind-bare thorn some longtails prinking Cried sweet, as though wind blown glass were chinking.
From Reynard the Fox by John Masefield
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