prink

Example Sentences

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"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

Play your part, poor pretty doll; Feast and frolic, pose and prink; There's the Morgue to end it all, And it's later than you think.

From Ballads of a Bohemian by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

Getting so you fuss if you have square-topped hairpins instead of round, and letting milliners sell you any sort of hats because you are too busy to prink!

From The Gorgeous Girl by Bartley, Nalbro

Mabbee ye'll have to prink up a little now that we've got a gentleman contractor in the ship.

From By Shore and Sedge by Harte, Bret

What I have to endure, V., waiting while you prink, no tongue can tell.

From Peggy by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)