Prink Definition

Origin of Prink

• Perhaps alteration (due to primp) of prank (“to deck, adorn"), from Middle English pranken (“to trim"), or from Middle Dutch prinken (“to deck for show, parade in fine apparel"). Cognate with Dutch pronken (“to flaunt"), German Prunk (“a show, parade, splendour"), Danish and Swedish prunk.

  From Wiktionary

• From Middle English prinken (“to wink, signal with the eye"), from prinke, prinche (“a wink, twinkling of the eye, momentary gesture"), from Old English princ (“a wink"). More at pry.

  From Wiktionary

• Probably alteration of prank

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition