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Prang vs Prank - What's the difference?

prang | prank |

As nouns the difference between prang and prank

is that prang is a bombing raid while prank is an evil deed; a malicious trick, an act of cruel deception.

As verbs the difference between prang and prank

is that prang is to crash an aeroplane while prank is to adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously.

As an adjective prank is

full of gambols or tricks.

prang

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (dated, military slang) A bombing raid.
  • (slang, dated) An aeroplane crash.
  • * 2011 , Bill Marsh, Great South Australia Stories , HarperCollins Publishers, Australia, unnumbered page,
    • I remember when a call came through that a crop sprayer had had a plane prang down at Naracoorte, in the south-east of South Australia.
  • (chiefly, Australia, and, New Zealand, UK, informal) An accident involving a motor vehicle, typically minor and without casualties.
  • * 1984 , Ian Manning, Beyond walking distance: The Gains from Speed in Australian Urban Travel , page 105,
    • The typical prang cost a few hundred dollars in panelbeating charges.
  • * 1999 , Lydia Laube, Bound for Vietnam , page 209,
    • If people drove like that in Australia there would be constant prangs .
  • * 2009 , Bridget Griffen-Foley, Changing Stations: The Story of Australian Commercial Radio , page 90,
    • The drive host, Mark Day, recalls the sinking feeling as he covered an accident on the Tullamarine expressway and wondered what commuters in Sydney would think about hearing all the details of the prang .
  • (US, slang) Crack cocaine.
  • (architecture) A type of tower or spire featured in some Buddhist temples of Thailand and Cambodia.
  • * 1995 , Joshua Eliot, Thailand and Burma Handbook 1996 , page 216,
    • The prang' is surrounded by walls, which are in turn surrounded by smaller ' prangs and chedis, some of which are rather precariously supported.
  • * 2001 , Paul Gray, Lucy Ridout, The Rough Guide to Bangkok , page 119,
    • The second platform surrounds the base of the prang proper, whose closed entranceways are guarded by four statues of the Hindu god Indra on his three-headed elephant Erawan.

    Synonyms

    * (minor accident involving a motor vehicle): bingle (Australia), collision, crash, fender-bender (US)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (slang, dated) To crash an aeroplane.
  • * 1946 , , Song of India , page 332,
    • “We have to wear good socks and boots,” said one pilot with a grin, “—as we often prang in the jungle, and have to walk home.”
  • (intransitive, chiefly, Australia, and, New Zealand, UK, informal) To crash; to have an accident while controlling a vehicle.
  • * 2004 , John Pym (editor), Time Out Film Guide , page 70,
    • Soon after rescuing some silly children from the local caves, the alien prangs his vessel and dies.
  • (transitive, chiefly, Australia, and, New Zealand, UK, informal) To damage (the vehicle one is driving) in an accident; to have a minor collision with (another motor vehicle).
  • * 1958 , Nation , Issues 1-33, page 56,
    • “Didn?t bump nobody,” I sneer.
    “That?s because you were careful,” says the wife. “Your forecast doesn?t say you will prang . It merely says ‘exercise care today,’ which you did.”
  • * 2005 , Thomas Marshall, Our Summer in Australia And New Zealand , page 93,
    • On Friday, I picked up our camper van, upgraded to a four sleeper so Elysee and I could each find a neutral corner, which I managed to “prang ,” navigating the parking lot, within one hour of signing away my house as security.

    Derived terms

    * pranged ----

    prank

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An evil deed; a malicious trick, an act of cruel deception.
  • *, II.4.2.ii:
    • Hercules, after all his mad pranks upon his wife and children, was perfectly cured by a purge of hellebor, which an Antieyrian administered unto him.
  • A practical joke or mischievous trick.
  • * Shakespeare
    • His pranks have been too broad to bear with.
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
    • The harpies played their accustomed pranks .
    Pranks may be funny, but remember that some people are aggressive.
    He pulled a gruesome prank on his sister.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * prankish * pranksome * prankster

    Verb

  • To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously.
  • * Spenser
    • In sumptuous tire she joyed herself to prank .
  • * 1748 , , B:II
    • And there a Sea?on atween June and May,
    Half prankt with Spring, with Summer half imbrown'd,
    A li?tle?s Climate made, where, Sooth to ?ay,
    No living Wight could work, ne cared even for Play.
  • * 1880 , For Spring, by Sandro Botticelli , lines 2–3
    • ''Flora, wanton-eyed
    ''For birth, and with all flowrets prankt and pied:
  • To make ostentatious show.
  • * M. Arnold
    • White houses prank where once were huts.
  • To perform a practical joke on; to trick.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 13, author=Karen Crouse, title=Still Invitation Only, but Jets Widen Door for Camp, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=“If someone’s pranking me,” Rowlands remembered thinking, “they’re going to great lengths to make it work.” }}
  • (slang) To call someone's phone and promptly hang up
    • Hey man, prank me when you wanna get picked up.
    I don't have your number in my phone, can you prank me?

    Synonyms

    (call and promptly hang up) missed call, missed-call

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Full of gambols or tricks.
    • (Webster 1913) English transitive verbs