overdress, dress up, fig out, fig up, deck up, gussy up, fancy up, trick up, deck out, trick out, prink, attire, get up, rig out, tog up, tog out
(verb) put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; “She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera”; “The young girls were all fancied up for the party”
prink
(verb) dress very carefully and in a finicky manner
Source: WordNet® 3.1
prink (third-person singular simple present prinks, present participle prinking, simple past and past participle prinked)
(obsolete or dialectal) to give a wink; to wink.
prink (plural prinks)
the act of adjusting dress or appearance; a sprucing up
prink (third-person singular simple present prinks, present participle prinking, simple past and past participle prinked)
To look, gaze.
To dress finely, primp, preen, spruce up.
To strut, put on pompous airs, be pretentious.
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Source: Wiktionary
Prink, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Prinked; p. pr. & vb. n. Prinking.] Etym: [Probably a nasalized form of prick. See Prick, v. t., and cf. Prig, Prank.]
Definition: To dress or adjust one's self for show; to prank.
Prink, v. t.
Definition: To prank or dress up; to deck fantastically. "And prink their hair with daisies." Cowper.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
