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},
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"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1676, Thomas Shadwell, The Virtuoso, London: Henry Herringman, act I, page 12",
"text": "[…] by the Mass: You’ll make excellent Wives, Cuckold your Husbands immoderately: You mind nothing but prinking your selves up.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy",
"text": "She put it on, then floated round the room prinking things — the flowers, the ashtrays, Jack's whisky tray — making everything outside herself perfect because nothing inside herself was perfect in the least.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To dress finely, primp, preen, spruce up."
],
"links": [
[
"dress",
"dress"
],
[
"primp",
"primp"
],
[
"preen",
"preen"
],
[
"spruce up",
"spruce up"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To strut, put on pompous airs, be pretentious."
],
"links": [
[
"strut",
"strut"
],
[
"pompous",
"pompous"
],
[
"pretentious",
"pretentious"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "prank"
}
],
"word": "prink"
}
{
"categories": [
"English contractions",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English verbs"
],
"etymology_number": 3,
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "pre-drink"
},
"expansion": "Contraction of pre-drink",
"name": "contraction"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Contraction of pre-drink.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "prinks",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "prinking",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "prinked",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "prinked",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English humorous terms",
"English student slang",
"en:Universities"
],
"glosses": [
"To pre-drink."
],
"links": [
[
"university",
"university"
],
[
"slang",
"slang"
],
[
"humorous",
"humorous"
],
[
"pre-drink",
"pre-drink"
]
],
"qualifier": "university slang",
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK, university slang, humorous) To pre-drink."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"humorous"
]
}
],
"word": "prink"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (fc4f0c7 and c937495). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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