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单词 prancing
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prancingn.

Brit. /ˈprɑːnsɪŋ/, /ˈpransɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈprænsɪŋ/
Forms: see prance v. and -ing suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prance v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < prance v. + -ing suffix1.
The action of prance v. (in various senses); an instance of this.
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c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 739 (MED) Furious neying of many bastard stede, Praunsynge of hors vp-on ouþer side.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 412 Prawncynge [?a1475 Winch. Pawsyng] or skyppynge, salitus.
?1577 Misogonus in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Ital. (1911) 198 Our mindes to please and liue at ease and sometime to vse praunsinge.
1611 Bible (King James) Judges v. 22 Then were the horse hoofes broken, by the meanes of the pransings, the pransings of their mightie ones. View more context for this quotation
1677 Smithfield Jockey 21 [A] cunning jockey..may infuse a beliefe that this prancing is the effect of his high mettle.
1740 C. Pitt tr. Virgil Æneid II. xii. 583 Shook by the Prancings of the thund'ring Horse.
1849 E. Ruskin Let. 28 Oct. (1965) i. 54 The prancing of the horses trotting and galloping after us on the Corso.
1877 H. James American xxiv. 427 In this matter of taking steps curveting and prancing were exclusively reserved for quadrupeds and foreigners.
1927 Harper's Mag. Oct. 650/2 Why, we almost send him to a eurhythmical school where he would have been taught to express his wants in wriggles and sinuous gestures and prancings and serpentine convolution.
1990 B. Bainbridge Awfully Big Adventure (BNC) 142 The somewhat lumpy prancings of the Tiger Lily troupe counted for nothing beside the chilly authority of Hook and the strutting Peter.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

prancingadj.

Brit. /ˈprɑːnsɪŋ/, /ˈpransɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈprænsɪŋ/
Forms: see prance v. and -ing suffix2.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prance v., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < prance v. + -ing suffix2.
That prances; given to or characterized by prancing.
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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Praunsynge horses, excussores equi.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xxiii. 104 The prancing flourishes, and smacking popismes,..commonly used in riding.
1688 Upon Flock of Gold-finches in J. Barker Poet. Recreations ii. 200 Scarce had the prancing Coursers of the World, With their fresh steeming breath the Morning curl'd.
1716 J. Gay Trivia ii. 46 Now rule thy prancing Steeds, lac'd Charioteer.
1788 R. Twining Let. 15 Aug. in Sel. Papers Twining Family (1887) 154 She was drawn by a pair of prancing, long-tailed ‘creams’.
1853 H. N. Humphreys Coin Coll. Man. (1876) xxii. 278 The type of the reverse is the Dioscuri on prancing horses.
1910 E. M. Forster Howards End xvi. 137 The door opened, and ‘Mr. Wilcox, Miss Wilcox’ entered, preceded by two prancing puppies.
1952 J. Lait & L. Mortimer U.S.A. Confidential ii. xiv. 169 Its waiters are prancing misfits in peekaboo blouses, with marcelled hair and rouged faces.
2004 New Republic 16 Aug. 21/1 People still like their Renaissance, with its prancing nymphs, striplings in hose, and Venus on the half-shell.

Derivatives

ˈprancingly adv. in a manner characterized by prancing, with a prancing gait; showily, ostentatiously.
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1632 J. Vicars tr. Virgil XII Aeneids ix. 256 Turnus..Whom a white spotted steed most prancingly..did beare.
1736 Counsels of Wisdom II. 364 Instead of..endeavouring to regain their Liberty..they should march prancingly along with their Burthens.
1843 Southern Literary Messenger 9 744 We join Queen Bess, the Virgin, And prancingly go forth, To hold that stately revel.
1918 Fort Wayne (Indiana) News & Sentinel 9 July 9 Certain of our noble young actors were not..in actual warfare forced to execute the heroics they so prancingly portray before the footlights.
2003 Independent (Nexis) 30 June 16 A small..bronze panel, shows a quartet of horses from the front, legs curled prancingly up and to the side.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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