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Definition of Prinking
1. prink [v] - See also: prink
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prinking
Literary usage of Prinking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"(4) The barley is just prinking out of the ground ; just making its appearance.
PRINT, (1) s. An impression ; an image ; a mould. (2) ». Privet. ..."
2. Wit and Mirth; Or, Pills to Purge Melancholy: Being a Collection of the Best by Thomas D'Urfey (1719)
"I Hate a Fop that at his Glass Stands prinking half the Day, With a sallow frowzy
olive colour'd Face, And a powder'd Peruke hanging to his Wast, ..."
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