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prank

1  [prangk]
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–noun
a trick of an amusing, playful, or sometimes malicious nature.
Origin:
1520–30; orig. uncert.

Synonyms:
caper, escapade, antic, shenanigan.
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prank

2  [prangk]
–verb (used with object)
1. to dress or adorn in an ostentatious manner: They were all pranked out in their fanciest clothes.
–verb (used without object)
2. to make an ostentatious show or display.
Origin:
1540–50; akin to D pronken to show off, strut, pronk show, finery, MLG prank pomp
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prank 1   (prāngk)   
n.  A mischievous trick or practical joke.

[Origin unknown.]
prank 2   (prāngk)   
v.   pranked, prank·ing, pranks

v.   tr.
To decorate or dress ostentatiously or gaudily.
v.   intr.
To make an ostentatious display.

[From Middle English pranken, to show off, perhaps from Middle Dutch pronken (from pronk, show, display) and from Middle Low German prunken (from prank, display).]
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Word Origin & History

prank 
"a trick," 1529, of uncertain origin, perhaps related to obsolete prank "decorate, dress up," from M.L.G. prank "display" (cf. also Du. pronken, Ger. prunken "to make a show, to strut"). Prankster is Amer.Eng., attested from 1927.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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