Wednesday, June 25th, 2008...12:19 am
Learn-A-Word Wednesday: prink \PRINGK\
transitive verb:
1. To dress up; to deck for show.
2. To dress or arrange oneself for show; to primp.Prink is probably an alteration of prank, from Middle English pranken, “to show off,” perhaps from Middle Dutch pronken, “to adorn oneself,” and from Middle Low German prunken (from prank, “display”).
I don’t have a lot to say about this word, except that a) it’s short and could be useful in Scrabble (if I EVER get to have game night again), and secondly, it sounds like a cuss word, on equal footing with something like “drat.”
Maybe a cross between “fink” and “prick”??
“That was my parking spot! You PRINK!”
But actually, it’s just what girls do. And maybe some boys, too.
My Kid heads toward the princess theme of dress-up (oh, so original!), but now that she’s almost in kindergarten, I see her dress-up interest fading as she matures into a “big girl.”
I’m a little sad. Maybe I need a tiara.
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5 Comments
June 25th, 2008 at 7:07 am
I get to prink my girls this afternoon (that sounds perverted). They are going to a birthday party at Bloedel and everyone is supposed to look like a southern belle. I don’t know how I ended up with 2 prinky princesses, when all I’ve always been such a tomboy. Sigh.
By the way, the ad on your sidebar is for something called Nad’s hair waxing gunk. Nad’s!? Could they seriously not come up with a better name than that? And what’s with the possessive? Is there someone out there named Nad and he/she is naming a hair removal product after him/herself?
June 25th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Oh it’s so true - my girls are 10 and 7 and I completely bypass the “princess dress-up” section now at Target. Waaaa!
June 25th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Brooke, you’ve never heard of Nad’s of hair removal? World renown. Maybe he’s just known in the gay world.
Sue, I was initially completely annoyed about the whole fairy dress up crap, but now that it’s slipping away, I’m missing that cute little phase…..what’s up with that?
June 26th, 2008 at 1:39 am
I don’t think I’ll have time to prink again the next … 18 years or so
It’s fun to read some Dutch words
Though I do think we use pronken not to describe the act of dressing up but to show off what we’re wearing.
June 26th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Oh, interesting, nadine! Thanks for chiming in! I think you’re right about that having no time to prink! Even now if I get the time, I forget what I used to do!
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