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单词 prink
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† prinkn.1

Forms: Old English princ, Middle English prynke.
Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: prick n.
Etymology: Probably a variant (with infixed -n- ) of prick n. (compare prick n. II.). Compare later prink v.1
Obsolete. rare.
A blink or twinkling of the eye; a moment, an instant.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [noun] > moment or instant
hand-whileOE
prinkOE
start-while?c1225
twinkling1303
rese?c1335
prick1340
momenta1382
pointa1382
minutea1393
instant1398
braida1400
siquarea1400
twink14..
whip?c1450
movement1490
punct1513
pissing whilea1556
trice1579
turning of a hand1579
wink1585
twinklec1592
semiquaver1602
punto1616
punctilio of time1620
punctum1620
breathing1625
instance1631
tantillation1651
rapc1700
crack1725
turning of a straw1755
pig's whisper1780
jiffy1785
less than no time1788
jiff1797
blinka1813
gliffy1820
handclap1822
glimpsea1824
eyewink1836
thought1836
eye-blink1838
semibreve1845
pop1847
two shakes of a lamb's taila1855
pig's whistle1859
time point1867
New York minute1870
tick1879
mo?1896
second1897
styme1897
split-second1912
split minute1931
no-time1942
sec.1956
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] > movements of eye > winking or blinking
prinkOE
twinklinga1300
blenching1393
twink14..
blenking?a1505
twinking1519
twinkle1548
connivance1596
winka1616
nictation1623
shailing1653
nictitation1794
blinking1871
blink1924
bat1932
saccade1953
OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 298 In ictu et atomo: on prince, in puncto, preowthwile.
OE tr. Defensor Liber Scintillarum (1969) ix. 85 Paenitudo enim mores immutat et longa temporum crimina in ictu oculi pereunt si cordis nata fuerit conpunctio : bot soðlice þeawas awent & lange tida leahtras on prince eages forwyrþað [g]if heortan acenned byð onbryrdnys.
c1450 C. d'Orleans Poems (1941) 27 (MED) Loue wold haue his power knowen or rad Sum tyme in lengthe or sumtyme in a prynke.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

† prinkn.2

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: prink v.2
Etymology: < prink v.2 With sense 1 perhaps compare pink n.6
Obsolete. rare.
1. Scottish. A person who takes great care over his or her appearance.
ΚΠ
c1582 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 113 On sick as thy sell, pert pratling prink [a1625 Harl. littill pratling pink] Culd þow not wair ink thy tratlingis to tel?
2. An act of adjusting the appearance or making smart; a prinking.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun]
tiffing?c1225
hightinga1387
prickinga1425
perching?1578
pranking1580
primpingc1590
sprunkinga1685
prinking1687
smugging1736
titivation1805
beautifying1836
prink1869
dolling1906
makeover1966
1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. iii She turned from the glass in Mrs. Gardiner's dressing room after a prolonged prink.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 6 Aug. 3/1 Most..of the present Bench..have had a full-dress ‘prink’ in front of the large looking-glass..before venturing to make their first appearance in court.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

prinkv.1

Brit. /prɪŋk/, U.S. /prɪŋk/
Forms: Middle English prinke, 1700s– prink, 1900s– prenk (English regional (Cornwall)). Also past tense Middle English prengte, Middle English prent, Middle English prentede, Middle English preynkte, Middle English preynte, Middle English princte, Middle English prynkid.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: prink n.1
Etymology: < prink n.1 The past tense forms with medial -nt- show simplification of the consonant cluster; compare similar past tense forms at blench v.1
Now rare (English regional (Cornwall) in later use).
†1. intransitive. To wink; to give a wink. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [verb (intransitive)] > move eyes > wink or blink
twinklea1300
prinkc1330
winka1400
twinkc1400
wapper1575
pimper1600
twire1601
hoodwink1641
connive1712
nictate1755
bat1838
blink1858
c1330 Short Metrical Chron. (Auch.) 2212 in PMLA (1931) 46 143 (MED) King jon..Hede put out his on eyȝe, For he no schuld no more prinke No wiþ at oþer eyȝe winke.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 1238 (MED) Sche preynte with hure eȝe oppon hur chamberere.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiii. 112 (MED) Þanne conscience curteisliche a contenaunce he made, And preynte [v.rr. prentede, prynkid; c1400 C text v.r. prengte] vpon pacience to preie me to be stille.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiii. 21 ‘Is Piers in þis place?’ quod I, & he preynte [v.rr. twynclid; prent; c1400 C text preynkte; v.r. princte] on me.
1873 St. Paul's Mag. Mar. 259 Professedly prudish..they..nod, osculate, prink, quiz.
2. transitive. To blink, wink, or close (the eye).
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > other gestures > [verb (intransitive)] > wink
twinklea1300
prinkc1380
twinkc1400
wink1837
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 4507 With þat Richard preynte ys eȝe Oppon ys feleschip þat was him neȝe.
1734 Honey-suckle 44 A grave Politician who saw his Surprize, His Spectacles doffing and prinking his Eyes.
a1895 T. C. Peter MS Coll. Cornish Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 622/2 He never prinked his eyes for the night.
a1903 T. C. Peter in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 622/2 'Evvent prenk'd an eye far tha neight.

Derivatives

† prinking n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
?a1800 in W. Walker Bards of Bon-accord (1887) 634 The dear, the lovely blinkin' o't [sc. an eye]..plagues me wi' the prinkin' o't.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

prinkv.2

Brit. /prɪŋk/, U.S. /prɪŋk/
Forms: 1500s princke, 1500s princt (past participle), 1500s–1600s princk, 1500s–1600s prinke, 1500s– prink, 1800s– prenk (English regional (Yorkshire)); Scottish pre-1700 1700s– prink, 1800s prenk, 1800s princk, 1900s– prunk (Shetland).
Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: prank v.4
Etymology: Probably a variant of prank v.4; for the vowel alternation, perhaps compare clink v.1 and clank v., jingle v. and jangle v., crinkle v.1 and crankle v., etc.; perhaps originating in a reduplicated compound reflected by the phrase prink and prank (compare quots. 1600 at sense 1b, 1808 at sense 2a, 1591 at sense 2b, and also quot. 1622 at sense 1b, in which the elements occur in reversed order), although if so it is odd that it is the form in -a- that is attested earlier. Compare prink n.2, prink v.3, prank v.1 The word was perhaps influenced by, or associated with, prick v. (compare prick v. 13, which is attested considerably earlier). Perhaps compare also primp v.
1.
†a. transitive. To set up, exalt; to display ostentatiously, show off. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1573 T. Twyne tr. Virgil in T. Phaer & T. Twyne tr. Virgil Whole .xii. Bks. Æneidos xi. Hh iv b Fortune whom she did disgrace Oft times agayne doth rayse and prinkes him up in prouder place.
1573 G. Gascoigne Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 362 Thus all was good that myghte be got in haste, To prinke me vp, and make mee higher plaste.
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 407 He so chaufeth and moyleth in sturryng the coales in princkyng upp the glory of this whotthouse.
b. intransitive. To make ostentatious display; to swagger, strut. Also transitive with it. In later use archaic (often with overtones of 2).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display or show off [verb (intransitive)]
brandishc1340
ruffle1484
braga1556
swash1556
flourish1563
flaunt1566
prank1567
prink1573
to shake, wag the feather1581
peacockize1598
air1605
display1608
to launch it out1608
flasha1616
to cut it out1619
flare1633
vapour1652
peacock1654
spark1676
to gallantrize it1693
bosh1709
glare1712
to cut a bosh1726
to show away1728
to figure away, off1749
parade1749
to cut a dashc1771
dash1786
to cut up1787
to cut a flash1795
to make, or cut, a splash1804
swank1809
to come out strong1825
to cut a spludge1831
to cut it (too) fat1836
pavonize1838
splurge1844
to do the grand1847
to cut a swath1848
to cut a splurge1860
to fan out1860
spread1860
skyre1871
fluster1876
to strut one's stuff1926
showboat1937
floss1938
style1968
1573 New Custome sig. A3 Do you not see howe these newe fangled pratling elfes, Prinke up so pertly of late in every place.
1576 G. Gascoigne Complaynt of Phylomene in Steele Glas sig. L.ijv To get more grace by crummes of cost, And princke it out hir parte.
1600 J. Lane Tom Tel-Troths Message 254 Some princk and pranck it.
1622 N. Breton Strange Newes sig. B1 v If the Groome get his Bride, he will so pranke it, and she so prinke it, that..there wil be such ioy, as if Summer should neuer heare of Winter.
1846 Wisconsin (Madison) Democrat 1 Aug. She must find other means of supplying the finery she was prinking in of late.
1899 H. Belloc in Speaker 14 Oct. 35/1 Oh! ye that prink it to and fro, And in pointed flounce and furbelow.
c. intransitive. English regional (northern). To be pert, forward, brash. Now rare.
ΚΠ
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Prenk, Prink, Pronk, to be forward or pert.
1880 Nidderdale Alm. And prenk and pout.
2. colloquial.
a. transitive. To make tidy, spruce, or smart; to dress up, deck out, adorn. Frequently reflexive. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautify (the person) [verb (transitive)]
highta1200
atiffe?c1225
tiff?c1225
wyndre?a1366
kembc1386
picka1393
prunec1395
tifta1400
varnishc1405
finea1425
tifflea1425
quaint1484
embuda1529
trick?1532
trick1545
dill1548
tricka1555
prink1573
smug1588
sponge1588
smudge1589
perk1590
primpc1590
sponge1592
tricksy1598
prime1616
sprug1622
briska1625
to sleek upa1625
trickify1678
prim1688
titivate1705
dandify1823
beflounce1824
befop1866
spry1878
lustrify1886
dude1899
doll1916
tart1938
youthify1945
pansy1946
spiv1947
dolly1958
zhuzh1970
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautify [verb (transitive)] > ornament > trim or deck out
perfurnish1375
enflourish?a1400
varnish14..
perform1420
to pick outc1429
polish?1440
trimc1516
to set out1523
trick?1532
face1542
trick1545
prank1546
tricka1555
bawdefy1562
tickle1567
prink1573
finify1586
deck1587
decore1603
betrima1616
fangle1615
beprank1648
prim1688
to garnish outa1704
decorate1782
to do off1794
dizen1807
tricolatea1825
fal-lal1845
1573 G. Gascoigne Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 360 Put feathers in thy pillowes greate and small, Lette them bee princkt with plumes that gape for plummes.
1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas Ep. Ded. Now I stand prinking me in the glasse.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 1012 When he [sc. Demetrius] was to make any preparation for warre, he had not then..his helmet perfumed, nor came not out of Ladies closets, picked and princt to go to battell.
1600 N. Breton Pasquils Mad-cap (1626) B j Who hath not seene a logger headed Asse..Prinking himselfe before a Looking-glasse?
1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea ix. 142 The Women prink up themselves in a particular manner.
1775 in F. Moore Songs & Ball. Amer. Rev. (1856) 100 All prinked up in full bag-wig.
1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 303 To gather king-cups in the yellow mead, And prink their hair with daisies.
1808 R. Southey Chron. Cid 246 Since midnight they had done nothing but prink and prank themselves.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Prenk, Prink, Pronk, to decorate, to dress in a showy, affected manner.
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. i. ii. 10 Adorned and prinked with wondrous art, Yet so grotesque that all men start.
1899 S. R. Crockett Kit Kennedy i The flowers which have slept,..prink themselves again, and give forth a good smell.
a1953 D. Thomas Under Milk Wood (1954) 23 Two-storied houses, many of which attempt to achieve some measure of gaiety by prinking themselves out in crude colours.
2006 Herald (Glasgow) 17 Jan. (Features section) 15 The Emperor emerged from his carefree dip and found this person prinking himself in the bath-house mirror.
b. intransitive. To spruce oneself up (frequently with the implication of pride in and admiration of the result); to primp, preen.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautify (the person) [verb (intransitive)]
trick?1532
mundify1568
prune1568
to finify it1586
prink1591
brisk1592
tiff1700
fetish1735
beautify1777
adonize1781
fix1783
smart1794
smarten1813
titivate1835
primp1887
doll1916
1591 A. Fraunce Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch ii. ii. sig. C4 She was all this while pruning herself by the water, Princking and prancking.
1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth I. 177 I hate a Fop that at his Glass Stands prinking half the Day.
1753 J. Collier Ess. Art of Tormenting i. ii. 59 She was every day longer prinking in the glass than you was.
1776 C. Anstey Election Ball 28 How she zimpers, and prinks, while the Glass is before her.
1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua Gloss. 536 Prink, to look at, gaze upon, as a girl does at herself in a glass.
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table ii. 44 Ironing out crumpled paragraphs, starching limp ones, and crimping and plaiting a little sometimes; it is as natural as prinking at the looking-glass.
1898 Daily News 8 Aug. 5/4 The young man, after an appropriate time spent in his room, prinking, appears in all the glory of starch and perfumery.
1904 H. O. Sturgis Belchamber x. 144 I'm waiting for Lady Deans... Women take such an infernal time prinking.
1940 C. Stead Man who loved Children x. 414 The little fairy daughter of ‘Coffin’ Lomasne was standing at the dressing table prinking before the glass.
2002 Evening Standard 19 Dec. 48 A cloakroom..with women prinking in front of the mirror.
3. transitive. Of a bird: to preen (itself, its feathers). Also intransitive.Apparently not attested in the 17th and 18th centuries.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [verb (transitive)] > preen
fret1423
prune?1533
prink1573
plume1637
wheta1678
preen1692
the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > preen
prunec1390
preen?c1450
prink1878
1573 G. Gascoigne Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 319 But marke his plumes, The which to princke, he dayes and nights consumes.
1820 W. Scott Monastery II. x. 292 Meantime he went on with his dalliance with his feathered favourite,..‘Ay, prune thy feathers, and prink thyself gay—much thou wilt make of it now.’
1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion i. i. 21 Yonder bird Prinks with deliberate bill his ruffled plumes.
1919 J. Masefield Reynard the Fox ii, in Poems (1946) 93 On the wind-bare thorn some longtails prinking Cried sweet as though wind-blown glass were chinking.
1997 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 6 Nov. 59/4 This bird that continued to prink itself..even as we left Sitanda's kraal.

Derivatives

prinked adj. adorned, spruced up, titivated; also in prinked-up.
ΚΠ
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 748 To apparell himselfe so sumptuously, and to be more fine and princked then became a priuate man.
1649 in W. Fraser Memorials Family Wemyss (1888) II. 231 My grit prinked and broutherd boxis.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Prinkt up, set up on the Cupboards~head in their Best Cloaths, or in State. Stiff-starched.
1783 tr. Rollin's Belles Lettres (ed. 10) I. ii. 49 He compares this florid prinked eloquence to young people curled out and powdered.
1845 J. Sylvester Margaret xvi. 141 There's Deacon Penrose's gally pots and spattles, and Nigger Tony's prinked up Patents, I an't afeered of none of um, no, nor of old Death himself.
1915 T. W. Paterson Auld Saws 77 I wish ye'd seen that prinkit wife.
2004 Evening Standard (Nexis) 27 Apr. 18 Take away the..safety-belts, and every banker and his prinked and perfumed wife will perhaps be constantly aware of jeopardy and the imminence of death.
ˈprinker n. a person who smartens or adorns a person or thing.
ΚΠ
1836 Times 2 July 4/5 W. Hodgkinson, Margaret street, Cavendish square, furniture-prinker.
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Prinker, one who prinks; one who dresses with much care.
1995 Times 12 Aug. (Mag.) 13/1 She tails off, and the prinkers come for her. They take her into the far corner of the bare white suite and get her ready to be shot [sc. photographed].
ˈprinking n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun]
tiffing?c1225
hightinga1387
prickinga1425
perching?1578
pranking1580
primpingc1590
sprunkinga1685
prinking1687
smugging1736
titivation1805
beautifying1836
prink1869
dolling1906
makeover1966
1687 A. Behn Luckey Chance i. iii. 15 That's all one Madam, that tricking and dressing and prinking and patching.
1700 G. Farquhar Constant Couple v. ii. 49 I knew, Sir, what your Powdering, your Prinking, your Dancing and your Frisking wou'd come to.
1883 W. D. Howells Register ii. 61 That just gives me time to do the necessary prinking.
1939 John o' London's Weekly 9 June 338/2 She was obsessed by the idea of her physical flaws and of her vanity—even her writing she describes in several letters as ‘prinking’.
2001 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 17 Mar. 18 A fancy-pants main course dish of mignons of Welsh Black beef arrives... Although I dislike such elaborate prinking, it proves delicious in the end.
ˈprinking adj.
ΚΠ
1746 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) 4 Why; ya purting, tatchy, stertling, ghowering, prinking, mincing Theng.
1863 Mrs. Toogood Specim. Yorks. Dial. (at cited word) She's a prenkin, forward, lass.
1946 P. S. Dunkin Post-Aristophanic Comedy 26 The Young Man, attended by his saucy Slave, worships the prinking Courtesans and shows himself to be an authentic fool.
1995 Evening Standard (Nexis) 17 Aug. 64 The prinking peacock of pugilism. The..man we usually see in the ring wearing a velvet suit, ruffled shirt and Cuban heels.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

prinkv.3

Brit. /prɪŋk/, U.S. /prɪŋk/
Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: prank v.1
Etymology: Probably a variant of prank v.1, probably influenced by prink v.2 (compare prink v.2 1b). Compare also prank v.4
intransitive. To walk jauntily or affectedly; (also) to walk daintily or with precise movements; to mince. (Perhaps influenced by prink v.2 1b.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > in stately or affected manner
prancea1398
jeta1400
prankc1450
strut1518
stalk1530
jotc1560
brank1568
piaffe1593
strit1597
swagger1600
stretch1619
prig1623
flutter1690
prink1696
jut1763
strunt1789
straddle1802
major1814
cakewalk1890
sashay1968
1696 [see prinking n. at Derivatives].
1803 M. Charlton Wife & Mistress (ed. 2) II. 28 ‘Oh’, says she, mincing and prinking, ‘I find, Mrs. Maunder, that you have been so unlucky as to affront Boden’.
1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 45/1 Prink, to walk jauntily.
1962 M. Baldwin Death on Live Wire & On stepping from Sixth Storey Window 11 Uncle Cyclops Had one eye To bulge at ankles prinking past.
1962 J. Onslow Bowler-hatted Cowboy xiii. 124 In the morning a doe with her twin fawns had passed us, stopping to nibble at the willow bushes as she prinked down the hill.
1975 M. Duffy Capital i. 45 I prink about like the last of the dandies.
1992 Times (Nexis) 21 Oct. Nobody still thinks that characters in Restoration comedies should mince and prink about the stage fluttering their fans and emitting tiny trills of ‘la, sir’.

Derivatives

† prinking n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1696 C. Leslie Snake in Grass x. 88 Thou, and thy God-father Fox can know a Saint from a Devil, without speaking, but not without a little Mincing and Prinking.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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