Pranked vs Prinked - What's the difference?
pranked | prinked |
(prank)
(obsolete) An evil deed; a malicious trick, an act of cruel deception.
*, II.4.2.ii:
A practical joke or mischievous trick.
* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Raleigh
To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously.
* Spenser
* 1748 , , B:II
* 1880 , For Spring, by Sandro Botticelli , lines 2–3
To make ostentatious show.
* M. Arnold
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
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(slang) To call someone's phone and promptly hang up
(obsolete) Full of gambols or tricks.
(Webster 1913)
English transitive verbs
(prink)
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 verbs the difference between pranked and prinked
is that pranked is (prank) while prinked is (prink).pranked
English
Verb
(head)prank
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- His pranks have been too broad to bear with.
- 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 alsoDerived terms
* prankish * pranksome * pranksterVerb
- In sumptuous tire she joyed herself to prank .
- 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.
- ''Flora, wanton-eyed
- ''For birth, and with all flowrets prankt and pied:
- White houses prank where once were huts.
citation
- 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-callAdjective
(en adjective)prinked
English
Verb
(head)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 .