Prink vs Plink - What's the difference?
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As verbs the difference between prink and plink is that prink is (obsolete|or|dialectal) to give a wink; to wink or prink can be to look, gaze while plink is (colloquial) to play a song or a portion of a song, usually on a percussion instrument such as a piano. As nouns the difference between prink and plink is that prink is the act of adjusting dress or appearance; a sprucing up while plink is a short, high-pitched sound.
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prink English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at .
Verb
( en verb)
(obsolete, or, dialectal) to give a wink; to wink.
Etymology 2
Perhaps alteration (due to primp) of , (etyl) and (etyl) prunk.
Noun
( en noun)
the act of adjusting dress or appearance; a sprucing up
* 2006 , Louisa May Alcott, Little Women :
- [...] And does my hair look very bad?", said Meg, as she turned from the glass in Mrs. Gardiner's dressing room after a prolonged prink .
Verb
( en verb)
to look, gaze
to dress finely, primp, preen, spruce up
to strut, put on pompous airs, be pretentious
Synonyms
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plink English
Noun
( en noun)
A short, high-pitched sound
Related terms
* (go "plink") to make a short, high pitched sound, to break while making a "plink" sound, : ''The lightbulb went "plink".
Verb
( en verb)
(colloquial) To play a song or a portion of a song, usually on a percussion instrument such as a piano.
* 1971: Louis C. Reichman, Barry J. Wishart, American Politics and Its Interpreters
- He can plink out Let Me Call You Sweetheart for reporters on a piano or rib himself on television talk shows....
* 1997: Kevin Osborn, Signe Larson, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Bringing Up Baby
- Your child may also begin to plink out a few notes on a xylophone or toy piano before her first birthday.
* 2004: Angela Elwell Hunt, The Truth Teller
- The female deputy sat down at the ramshackle piano and proceeded to plink out the opening notes of "Heart and Soul."
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