prink
verb (used with object)
to dress, groom, or decorate (someone or something) in a careful and showy manner.
prinked
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past participleof prink.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof prink.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
prinkverb (used with object)to dress, groom, or decorate (someone or something) in a careful and showy manner.
Example Sentences
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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
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
The shepherd prinked him for the dance, With jacket gay and spangle's glance, And all his finest quiddle.
From Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe by Charles Timothy Brooks
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
