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?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.

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.

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.

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.