The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prink \Prink\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Prinked; p. pr. & vb. n. Prinking.] [Probably a nasalized form of prick. See Prick, v. t., and cf. Prig, Prank.] To dress or adjust one's self for show; to prank.
Prink \Prink\, v. t.
To prank or dress up; to deck fantastically. ``And prink
their hair with daisies.''
--Cowper.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. (context obsolete or dialectal English) to give a wink; to wink. Etymology 2
n. the act of adjusting dress or appearance; a sprucing up vb. 1 to look, gaze 2 to dress finely, primp, preen, spruce up 3 to strut, put on pompous airs, be pretentious
WordNet
v. dress very carefully and in a finicky manner
put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; "She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera"; "The young girls were all fancied up for the party" [syn: dress up, fig out, fig up, deck up, gussy up, fancy up, trick up, deck out, trick out, attire, get up, rig out, tog up, tog out, overdress] [ant: dress down]
Usage examples of "prink".
She held her breath as she imagined the slender, strong hands cupping her breasts from behind, then palming and massaging her prinked nipples.
No one was dressed as richly as Rhodine, with four flounces to her pink gown and her hair prinked into ringlets.
I suppose you prinked up aristocratic bastards don't do that to your women?
Nattily dressed, his wig prinked, Mailer was playing the role of the architect Stanford White, and Norris, appropriately, was playing his wife.
He had arched eyebrows and a grooved face and flicked-up horns of black hair above his pointed ears, which he prinked with his little palms before the hall mirror as he took off his hat - so bright and comic that on a different occasion Ostrakova would have laughed out loud at all the life and humour and irreverence in him.
He saw the Eurasian girls prinked out in their best frocks to lure into marriage some unwary Englishman.
She preserved an unconvinced silence, and as soon as Miss Blackburn had finished prinking her crimped gray locks at the mirror, suggested that they should go downstairs again.
A final prinking, on tiptoe before the gilded looking-glass over the mantelpiece, and the ladies were ready to be escorted down the staircase, and handed up into the waiting carriage.
Very soon Ursula was mincing and simpering around in a ridiculous girly way, and smoothing out her gown and prinking at herself like a foolish old hen, and all the time pretending she was not hearing what Satan was saying.
Roland crawled through litters of broken glass from the door, feeling pricks and prinks of pain as some cut his knees and knuckles, not caring.