Today's Word "prink"
To dress up
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prink \PRINGK\ (transitive verb) - To dress up; to deck for show.
(intransitive verb) - To dress or arrange oneself for show; to primp.
"Richard and Peg's back room held an excellent double bed with thick linen curtains drawn about it from rails connecting its four tall posts, several chests for clothing, a cupboard for shoes and boots, a mirror on one wall for Peg to prink in front of, a dozen hooks on the same wall, and William Henry 's gimbaled cot." -- Colleen McCullough, 'Morgan's Run'
Prink is probably an alteration of prank, from Middle English pranken, "to show off," perhaps from Middle Dutch pronken, "to adorn oneself," and from Middle Low German prunken (from prank, "display").
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