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Prank   /præŋk/   Listen
noun
Prank  n.  A gay or sportive action; a ludicrous, merry, or mischievous trick; a caper; a frolic. "The harpies... played their accustomed pranks." "His pranks have been too broad to bear with."



verb
Prank  v. t.  (past & past part. pranked; pres. part. pranking)  To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously; often followed by up; as, to prank up the body. See Prink. "In sumptuous tire she joyed herself to prank."



Prank  v. i.  To make ostentatious show. "White houses prank where once were huts."



adjective
Prank  adj.  Full of gambols or tricks. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Prank" Quotes from Famous Books



... fantasy to a formula? Nor should they ever be allowed to clip the wings of romance. But the painter who bade his subject sit under a sodium light would justly be deemed a lunatic, and any analysis of Spencer's character drawn from his latest prank would ...
— The Silent Barrier • Louis Tracy

... frequent mention, Elijah Impey. We know little about their school days. But, we think, we may safely venture to guess that, whenever Hastings wished to play any trick more than usually naughty, he hired Impey with a tart or a ball to act as fag in the worst part of the prank. ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 1 • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... "This prank encouraged him very much; for he thought he had now certainly escaped without any bad consequences; so he went on applauding his own ingenuity, and came to a green where several little boys were at play. He desired leave to play with them, ...
— The History of Sandford and Merton • Thomas Day

... prank of the Fifth. By the way, do you see how one of them has altered this debating ...
— The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's - A School Story • Talbot Baines Reed

... gracious Lord, To chide at your extreames, it not becomes me: (Oh pardon, that I name them:) your high selfe The gracious marke o'th' Land, you haue obscur'd With a Swaines wearing: and me (poore lowly Maide) Most Goddesse-like prank'd vp: But that our Feasts In euery Messe, haue folly; and the Feeders Digest with a Custome, I should blush To see you so attyr'd: sworne I thinke, To shew ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare


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