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Preen   /prin/   Listen
verb
Preen  v. t.  (past & past part. preened; pres. part. preening)  
1.
To dress with, or as with, a preen; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers; said of birds.
2.
To trim up, as trees. (Prov. Eng.)
3.
Hence: To dress (oneself) carefully or stylishly; to primp.
4.
To pride (oneself) on one's accomplishments; to congratulate (oneself).


Preen  v. i.  
1.
To dress up neatly and smartly; to make oneself well-groomed and well-dressed.
2.
To feel proud of one's achievement; to swell or gloat.


noun
Preen  n.  A forked tool used by clothiers in dressing cloth.





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"Preen" Quotes from Famous Books



... you sit, lurching and half asleep. The boatmen shout one to another in nasal discords. Lazily you preen your great wings, eagle wings, built for the sky; ...
— Profiles from China • Eunice Tietjens
... kiss'd the kiss: And the Bride, who came from her coach a Miss, As a Countess walk'd to her carriage— Whilst Hymen preen'd his plumes like a dove, And Cupid flutter'd his wings above, In the shape of a fly—as little a Love As ever look'd in at ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood
... more smothered tones, she was possibly quite as dirty as her lord, but being brown the dirt did not show. Her rags did, for a more disreputable bird I never saw, though she, too, washed and napped her wings, and dived and drenched herself before getting out on the bank to preen and ...
— Patience Wins - War in the Works • George Manville Fenn
... came Bertram Chester, visible over their garden wall as he toiled up the hen-coop sidewalk. The Judge returned to the house; Mattie Tiffany settled herself on the piazza with the preen and flutter of a female thing ...
— The Readjustment • Will Irwin
... boys, they are not in it! A woman will endure martyrdom with the expression of a seraph,—an extremely aggravating seraph. She looks after her soul as if it were the ultimate fact of the universe. She will trim and preen that ridiculous soul, though the heavens fall and the ...
— The Daughters of Danaus • Mona Caird


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