| prink \PRINGK\ (transitive verb) - To dress up; to deck for show.
(intransitive verb) - To dress or arrange oneself for show; to primp.
"To prink and preen he'd ask no urging,
But spend three hours before the glass,
Till from his dressing-room he'd pass,
Like Venus' very self emerging..." -- Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, 'Eugene Onegin'
Prink is probably an alteration of prank, from Middle English pranken, "to show off," perhaps from Middle Dutch pronken, "to adorn oneself," and from Middle Low German prunken (from prank, "display"). |
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