prink
verb (used with object)
to dress, groom, or decorate (someone or something) in a careful and showy manner.
prinking
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present participleof prink.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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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
There was a simultaneous smoothing back of the hair and prinking of the dress through the room.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis
Sister asked one night, finding Louise prinking before the hall mirror and Grace counting change from her mesh bag.
From Brother and Sister by Josephine Lawrence
