Word of the Day

Saturday, November 20, 2004

prink

\PRINGK\ , transitive verb;

To dress up; to deck for show.

intransitive verb:

To dress or arrange oneself for show; to primp.

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Quotes:

Tara has supermodel legs and is already getting used to being prinked and coiffed as she prepares for her first beauty contest in the autumn.

-- Raffaella Barker, "Diary hatched, matched and almost despatched", Daily Telegraph, September 6, 1997

The point is reinforced by a clutch of contemporary art photos . . . showing plump nudes prinking and preening like pouter pigeons, and, in one case, a couple of dancers deliberately posed to recreate a Degas painting.

-- Hilary Spurling, Daily Telegraph, January 23, 1999

Origin:

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").