| 单词 | prinked-up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprinked-up 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. < as lemmas |
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