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Prink

verb
(past & past part. prinked; pres. part. prinking)
1.
Dress very carefully and in a finicky manner.
2.
Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive.  Synonyms: attire, deck out, deck up, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, overdress, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up.  "The young girls were all fancied up for the party"





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"Prink" Quotes from Famous Books



... stand and prink, and fix her hair Around her forehead with great care; And take some time to tie a bow That must, to please ...
— Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 • Edward William Cole
... dear Dicky," his sister protested, "I don't want to sit upon the Terrace. I am going to my dressmaker's across the way there, and afterwards to Lucie's to try on some hats. 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. That's my programme. I shall be doing what I can the whole of the time. I shall make discreet enquiries of my dressmaker, who knows everybody, and I sha'n't let a single acquaintance go by. You will have to ...
— Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo • E. Phillips Oppenheim


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