Prank vs Antic - What's the difference?

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Prank is a related term of antic.

As adjectives the difference between prank and antic

is that prank is (obsolete) full of gambols or tricks while antic is ancient.

As a noun prank

is (obsolete) an evil deed; a malicious trick, an act of cruel deception.

As a verb prank

is to adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously.

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.

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(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

antic

English

Alternative forms

* antick

Adjective

(en adjective)

(architecture, arts) Grotesque, incongruous.

Grotesque, bizarre; absurd.

Noun

(en noun)

(architecture, arts, obsolete) A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle.

A caricature.

(often in plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour.

* Wordsworth

And fraught with antics as the Indian bird / That writhes and chatters in her wiry cage.

* 1953 , John Christopher, Blemish

I saw the barren horror of your people's leisure with the million entertained by the antics of a tiny few

* 2007 , , Time To Add A Cute Kid To The Cast Questionable Content Number 951

Pintsize: Wait, don’t you want to know why I’m tied up and hanging from the ceiling? / Faye: Not really. Nighty night! / Pintsize: Shit! My wacky antics have jumped the shark!

A grotesque performer or clown.

A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before jumping

Verb

To perform antics.

(obsolete) To make a fool of, to cause to look ridiculous.

* , Act II, Scene VII:

Gentle lords, let's part; / You see we have burnt our cheeks: strong Enobarb / Is weaker than the wine; and mine own tongue / Splits what it speaks: the wild disguise hath almost / Antick'd us all.

(rare) To perform (an action) as an antic; to mimic ridiculously.

* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, page 70:

She unfastened her dress, her arms arched thin and high, her shadow anticking her movements.

To make appear like a buffoon.

(Shakespeare)

References

* OED 2nd edition 1989 * *

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