Pompous vs Prink - What's the difference?
pompous | prink |
Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.
* 1848, , Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
the act of adjusting dress or appearance; a sprucing up
* 2006 , Louisa May Alcott, Little Women :
to look, gaze
to dress finely, primp, preen, spruce up
to strut, put on pompous airs, be pretentious
As an adjective pompous
is affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.As a verb prink is
(obsolete|or|dialectal) to give a wink; to wink or prink can be to look, gaze.As a noun prink is
the act of adjusting dress or appearance; a sprucing up.pompous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "Not that the parting speech caused Amelia to philosophise, or that it armed her in any way with a calmness, the result of argument; but it was intolerably dull, pompous , and tedious; and having the fear of her schoolmistress greatly before her eyes, Miss Sedley did not venture, in her presence, to give way to any ebullitions of private grief."
Synonyms
* conceited * smug * See alsoAntonyms
* humble * modest * self-effacingExternal links
* * *prink
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at .Etymology 2
Perhaps alteration (due to primp) of , (etyl) and (etyl) prunk.Noun
(en noun)- [...] 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 .