prinking

Verb (1)

prink (third-person singular simple present prinks, present participle prinking, simple past and past participle prinked)

1. (dialectal, obsolete) to give a wink; to wink.

Verb (2)

prink (third-person singular simple present prinks, present participle prinking, simple past and past participle prinked)

1. To look, gaze.
2. 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, Thomas Shadwell, The Virtuoso, London: Henry Herringman, act I, page 12
3. To strut, put on pompous airs, be pretentious.
4. 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, Ian Fleming, “The Girl From Headquarters”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 35

Verb (3)

prink (third-person singular simple present prinks, present participle prinking, simple past and past participle prinked)

1. (UK, humorous, university slang) To pre-drink.

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