Crossword clues for primp
primp
- Peacocks do it
- Work to look good
- Work hard to look beautiful
- Use a mirror
- Make oneself pretty
- Groom fastidiously
- Get ready for the prom
- Tart oneself up
- Take extra time at the mirror
- Spend time in front of the mirror
- Spend time before the mirror
- Make grooming adjustments
- Make fussy adjustments to one's appearance
- Groom with care
- Get smarter
- Get ready for a date
- Get prettied up
- Fuss with one's hair and makeup
- Fuss before a mirror
- Fix your hair, say
- Enhance one's appearance
- Dude up
- Dress in a finicky way
- Do the do just so
- Do some preening
- Carefully groom
- & preen
- Smarten up
- Preen
- Prettify oneself
- Pretty up
- Groom oneself carefully
- Hog the mirror
- Fix the hair just so, say
- Dress up fussily
- Dress with care
- Doll up
- Get the hair just right
- Groom carefully
- Adorn in a finicky way
- Neaten one's appearance
- Groom runs into bloke with girl
- Groom oneself elaborately
- Groom elaborately
- Smarten up pages around the margin
- Dress up in skirt with very soft border
- Dress up right, with solicitor around
- Gussy up
- Fuss in front of a mirror
- Dress carefully
- Monopolize the mirror
- Dress fussily
- Spruce oneself up
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Primp \Primp\, v. i. & t. [Cf. Prim, a.]
To be formal or affected in dress or manners; -- often with
up. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
--Halliwell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1801, probably an extension of prim (q.v.) in its verbal "dress up" sense; compare Scottish primpit (c.1739) "delicate, nice." Related: Primped; primping.
Wiktionary
vb. To spend time improving one's appearance (often in front of a mirror).
WordNet
Usage examples of "primp".
The little girl was thrilled with the sparkling treasures and immediately began to primp in front of the oval mirror.
A tent flap on the left side of the wagon, away from the campfire, was opened, letting in the sun so the Ranjana could primp before her mirror.
And he was all primped up, too, mon, and he looked slick and shiny like he just came out of the store.
His little girl, his bright golden darling, with some primped and pampered and polished bower lad?
Claire and I had shared the same shoe size, the same taste in music, and the same love of fruity mixed drinks that we consumed in quantity as we primped for our big nights out.
She turned and gazed in the oval mirror above the fireplace, smiling as she primped the back of her hair.
At night she primped more than necessary, in order to make a good impression, and as she joined him downstairs she was rewarded by the way his blue eyes would light up at her appearance.
The person primping before the mirror now was a woman in every sense of the word--no longer an innocent, worldly in truth.
Lowering her voice to a hushed whisper, she inclined her head towards the woman primping on stage.
William smiled at the actors their primping, their practiced, shallow attempts at seduction and eroticism.
She had grown so fat that she could not move, and she spent the day in the notions shop, where there was no longer anything to sell, primping and dressing in finery from the time she awoke with the first roosters until the following dawn, for she slept very little.
He could picture her standing by the window, an impatient look on her face, and he could see her primping in the mirror of the tulipwood dressing table.
On such nights, the dingy dwellings of Spittalfields and Whitechapel still seem to belong to the Huguenot silk-weavers, the prim backstreets of Kensington appear eternally Edwardian, and the houses of the Chelsea embankment, primped with gothic trimmings and standing in Sunday finery like a charabanc of ruddy-faced matrons, remain the province of the Pre-Raphaelites.
Paks snorted, then laughed, remembering the militia primped up in velvets and laces.
Floyt asked as Terran notables straightened their sashes and primped their hairdos, cleared their throats and wiped sweat from their palms.