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primp

/pɹɪmp/

primp verb: to spend time improving one's appearance, often in front of a mirror.

primp: women's blue denim jacket
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Verb

primp (third-person singular simple present primps, present participle primping, simple past and past participle primped)

  1. (intransitive) To spend time improving one's appearance, often in front of a mirror.
    • "Then I promise I'll let you take your bath and primp all day for your date."2001, Jo-Ann Mapson, Bad Girl Creek
  2. (transitive) To dress in an affected manner.
    • Tonight, Moses was the center of attraction, attended to by a dozen Green Berets who prepped and primped him like a stage crew fluttering about a Hollywood star.2013, Douglas Waller, Commandos: The Making Of America's Secrets

primp meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam

primp in Tamil

மிகுந்த சிரத்தையுடன் அலங்காரம் செய், உடையணி

primp in Bengali

প্রায়ই আয়নার সামনে দাঁড়িয়ে, কৃত্রিম, ভানপূর্ণ ঢঙে পোশাক পরা

primp in Malayalam

tidy, groom, arrange
മോടിയായി അണിഞ്ഞൊരുങ്ങുക, ഭംഗിയായി ഒതുക്കിവക്കുക, അണിഞ്ഞൊരുങ്ങുക, ചുണവരുത്തുക, സ്വയം ഉഷാറാകുക, മോടിവരുത്തുക

Forms of primp

third-person singular presentprimps
present participleprimping
past participleprimped
pastprimped

Origin of primp

16th century, a variant of prim.

Words formed from primp

Words that rhyme with primp

4 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about primp

What does primp mean?
Primp means to spend time improving one's appearance, often in front of a mirror.
What is primp in Tamil?
Primp in Tamil is மிகுந்த சிரத்தையுடன் அலங்காரம் செய், உடையணி. See Primp meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is primp?
Primp is a verb.
How do you pronounce primp?
Primp is pronounced /pɹɪmp/.
What is the past tense of primp?
The past tense of primp is primped.

Words near primp in the dictionary

  1. primosome
  2. primosomes
  3. primost
  4. primovaccinee
  5. primovaccinees
  6. primp
  7. primp up
  8. primped
  9. primper
  10. primperan
  11. primpers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: primp (page history and authors); primp (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); primp (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); primp (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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