prink

Example Sentences

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Only a few minutes would be needed, she declared, in which "to prink a bit."

From A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade by King, Charles

"As much a mystery to you as it is to us, how you girls can like to gabble and prink from one week's end to the other," retorted Tom.

From An Old-Fashioned Girl by Alcott, Louisa May

You don’t know how to prink, do you?”

From Flaming June by Gilbert, A.

When I descend Towards their brink I stand, and look, And stoop, and drink, And bathe my wings, And chink and prink.

From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Hardy, Thomas

The friends had a social "cup o' tea" upstairs, which Polly considered the height of luxury, and then each took a mirror and proceeded to prink to her heart's content.

From An Old-Fashioned Girl by Alcott, Louisa May