prinkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

prink (三人称単数 現在形 prinks, 現在分詞 prinking, 過去形および過去分詞形 prinked)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) to give a wink; to wink.

語源 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.

名詞

prink (複数形 prinks)

1. the act of adjusting dress or appearance; a sprucing up
   • 2006, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women:

     [...] 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.

動詞

prink (三人称単数 現在形 prinks, 現在分詞 prinking, 過去形および過去分詞形 prinked)

1. To look, gaze.
2. To dress finely, primp, preen, spruce up.
   • 1676, Thomas Shadwell, The Virtuoso, London: Henry Herringman, Act I, p. 12,^[1]

     […] by the Mass: You’ll make excellent Wives, Cuckold your Husbands immoderately: You mind nothing but prinking your selves up.

   • 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:

     She put it on, then floated round the room prinking things — the flowers, the ashtrays, Jack's whisky tray — making everything outside herself perfect because nothing inside herself was perfect in the least.