prink
1. dress very carefully and in a finicky manner
• Hypernyms:
dress, get dressed
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
2. 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
• Syn:
overdress, dress up, fig out, fig up, deck up,
gussy up, fancy up, trick up, deck out, trick out, attire,
get up, rig out, tog up, tog out
• Ant:
dress down (for: dress up), underdress (for: overdress)
• See Also:
dress (for: dress up)
• Derivationally related forms:
rigout (for: rig out), getup (for: get up), attire (for: attire)
• Hypernyms:
dress, get dressed
• Hyponyms:
preen, primp, plume, dress, prank,
tart up, enrobe, bedizen, dizen
• Verb Group:
dress, dress up, costume
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s (for: dress up)
- Somebody ----s (for: overdress)
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