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Definition of Prinked
1. prink [v] - See also: prink
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prinked
Literary usage of Prinked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1880)
"To deck, to prick, S. "prinked. Well-dressed, 6ne, neat, Ex- more." Gl. Grose.
The term occurs in a poem undoubtedly written by Ramsay. ..."
2. Elson Grammar School Fourth Reader: For the Eighth Grade by William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck (1909)
"Then down he shot, bounced airily along 10 The sward, twitched in a grasshopper,
made song Midflight, perched, prinked, and to his art again. ..."
3. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1844)
"A person dressed out fine is said in the West of England to be prinked out.
PUN.—" Thersites. He would pun thee into shivers with his fist, ..."
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