prink

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of adjusting one's dress or appearance; the act of sprucing oneself up.
    — “Is my sash right; and does my hair look very bad?” said Meg, as she turned from the glass in Mrs. Gardiner’s dressing-room, after a prolonged prink.
动词 v.
  1. to give a wink; to wink. dialectal,obsolete
  2. To look, gaze.
  3. To pre-drink. UK,humorous
  4. To dress finely, primp, preen, spruce up.
    — […] by the Mass: You’ll make excellent Wives, Cuckold your Husbands immoderately: You mind nothing but prinking your selves up.
  5. To strut, put on pompous airs, be pretentious.

词形变化

prinks present,singular,third-person prinking participle,present prinked participle,past prinked past prinks plural prinks present,singular,third-person prinking participle,present prinked participle,past prinked past prinks present,singular,third-person prinking participle,present prinked participle,past prinked past

词汇关系

近义词
prank
衍生词
prinker prink up

词源

词源 1
From Middle English prinken (“to wink, signal with the eye”), from prinke, prinche (“a wink, twinkling of the eye, momentary gesture”), from Old English princ (“a wink”). More at pry.
词源 2
Perhaps alteration (due to primp) of prank (“to deck, adorn”), from Middle English pranken (“to trim”), or from Middle Dutch prinken (“to deck for show, parade in fine apparel”) (from pronk (“show, display”) or from Middle Low German prunken (from prank (“display”)).
Cognate with Middle Dutch pronken (“to flaunt”), German Prunk (“a show, parade, splendour”), Danish and Swedish prunk.
词源 3
Contraction of pre-drink.
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