Wink vs Prink - What's the difference?
wink | prink |
(obsolete) To close one's eyes.
* Shakespeare
* Tillotson
(archaic) To turn a blind eye.
*, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.51:
* Herbert
* John Locke
(intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion.
To twinkle.
To be dim and flicker.
To send an indication of agreement by winking.
An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
A brief time; an instant.
A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
* 1919 ,
A disc used in the game of tiddlywinks.
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 wink and prink
is that wink is to close one's eyes while prink is to give a wink; to wink.As nouns the difference between wink and prink
is that wink is an act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking while prink is the act of adjusting dress or appearance; a sprucing up.wink
English
Verb
(en verb)- I will wink , so shall the day seem night.
- They are not blind, but they wink .
- Some trot about to bear false witness, and say anything for money; and though judges know of it, yet for a bribe they wink at it, and suffer false contracts to prevail against equity.
- And yet, as though he knew it not, / His knowledge winks , and lets his humours reign.
- Obstinacy can not be winked at, but must be subdued.
- He winked at me.
- She winked her eye.
- The light winks .
Noun
(en noun)- I couldn't bear to leave him where he is. I shouldn't sleep a wink for thinking of him.
Derived terms
* nudge nudge wink wink * wink murderprink
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 .
