PRINK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prink mean? 

• PRINK (verb)
  The verb PRINK has 2 senses:

1. dress very carefully and in a finicky manner

2. put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive

  Familiarity information: PRINK used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRINK (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they prink    ... he / she / it prinks   
Past simple: prinked   
Past participle: prinked   
-ing form: prinking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dress very carefully and in a finicky manner

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "prink" is one way to...):

dress; get dressed (put on clothes)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

attire; deck out; deck up; dress up; fancy up; fig out; fig up; get up; gussy up; overdress; prink; rig out; tog out; tog up; trick out; trick up

Context example:

The young girls were all fancied up for the party

Hypernyms (to "prink" is one way to...):

dress; get dressed (put on clothes)

Verb group:

dress; dress up (dress in a certain manner)

costume; dress up (dress in a costume)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "prink"):

dress; plume; preen; primp (dress or groom with elaborate care)

prank (dress up showily)

tart up (dress up in a cheap and provocative way)

enrobe (adorn with a robe)

bedizen; dizen (dress up garishly and tastelessly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

It must be recorded of Amy that she deliberately prinked that night.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

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.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)