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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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
Why are you prinking so at that mirror?
From Plays by Aleksandr Nicolaevich Ostrovsky
“Hic, haec, hoc, is a deal meeter for the like o’ thee than prinking of wedding doublets!”
From Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt
