Sekirov Dictionary

prink

/ˈpɹɪŋk/

verb 6
noun 1
forms 3
phrases 1

verb6

•
To dress finely, primp, preen, spruce up.
- […] by the Mass: You’ll make excellent Wives, Cuckold your Husbands immoderately: You mind nothing but prinking your selves up. — 1676
•
To improve; to make stylish.
- The gardens were spruced and the fountains played again and the two main hotels, the Splendide and the Hermitage, were prinked and furbished and restaffed. — 1953
(UK, humorous) To pre-drink.
To strut, put on pompous airs, be pretentious.
To look, gaze.
(dialect, no longer used) to give a wink; to wink.

noun1

•
The act of adjusting one's dress or appearance; the act of sprucing oneself up.
- “Is my sash right; and does my hair look very bad?” said Meg, as she turned from the glass in Mrs. Gardiner’s dressing-room, after a prolonged prink. — 1868

forms

prinked · prinking · prinks

Phrases with prink

prink up
To make more attractive.

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