prink

IPA: prˈɪŋk

noun

  • The act of adjusting one's dress or appearance; the act of sprucing oneself up.

verb

  • (obsolete or dialectal) to give a wink; to wink.
  • To look, gaze.
  • To dress finely, primp, preen, spruce up.
  • To strut, put on pompous airs, be pretentious.
  • (UK, university slang, humorous) To pre-drink.
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Examples of "prink" in Sentences

  • High ice crystals prink its blue like a snowfield.
  • With guerillaman aspear aspoor to prink the pranks of primkissies.
  • I used to refill with "prink" ink the cartridges of an old model of HP inkget.
  • And Polly ran into her own room, to prink also, fearing that her friend might be ashamed of her plain costume.
  • Banquet spreads did not, later, bring her to the prink of what would become her preferred habit, binge and purge.
  • The printer died and the new HP Deskjet 4200 does not like the B&W cartridge (model 350) to be refilled with "prink" products.
  • You heard the Postmaster was here and so you must prink and prim yourself in front of the mirror — look on this side and that side and all around.
  • Some -- a reporter who covered elections told us he saw one prink -- precinct captain pull down the lever 70 different -- 70 times at the start of the day.
  • The friends had a social "cup o 'tea" upstairs, which Polly considered the height of luxury, and then each took a mirror and proceeded to prink to her heart's content.
  • Saturday was breakfast and more chat until car-picking up and the eventual drive back to Oxford -- arrived in plenty of time to shower and prink / preen before the Kellogg College formal hall.

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