Lexicographical Neighbors of Prejink
Literary usage of Prejink
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"Mrs. Fenton,—seeing the exposure that prejink Miss Peggy had made of herself,—laughed
for some time as if she was by herself." The Provost, p. 203. ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1822)
"Mrs. Fenton, hearing the accident, came running to the door, and seeing the
exposure that prejink Miss Peggy had made of herself, put her hands to her sides ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1829)
"... to shew what a prim and prejink-look- ing fellow has written a book,—if I were
to write all this, surely, although I never mentioned his name, ..."
4. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1885)
"In some of the deer forest castles, and in not a few of the shooting-boxes in
the heart of tho Highlands, the modes of life arc as "prejink," to use a ..."
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