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Word Meanings - PRANK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Spenser.

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  • GAYETY
    1. The state of being gay; merriment; mirth; acts or entertainments prompted by, or inspiring, merry delight; -- used often in the plural; as, the gayeties of the season. 2. Finery; show; as, the gayety of dress. Syn. -- Liveliness; mirth;
  • DROOPER
    One who, or that which, droops.
  • FROLICKY
    Frolicsome. Richardson.
  • DROOPINGLY
    In a drooping manner.
  • SPORTLESS
    Without sport or mirth; joyless.
  • SPORTING
    Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house
  • MERRYMAKING
    Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
  • SPORTIVE
    Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n.
  • SPORTAL
    Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports. "Sportal arms." Dryden.
  • SPORTFUL
    1. Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion. Down he alights among the sportful herd. Milton. 2. Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive. They are no sportful
  • SPREE
    A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic; a carousal.
  • SPORTER
    One who sports; a sportsman. As this gentleman and I have been old fellow sporters, I have a frienship for him. Goldsmith.
  • SPORTLING
    A little person or creature engaged in sports or in play. When again the lambkins play --Pretty sportlings, full of May. Philips.
  • GAMBOL
    A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank. Dryden. (more info) It. gambata kick, fr. L. gamba leg, akin to F. jambe, OF. also, gambe, fr. L. gamba, hoof or perh. joint: cf. Gr. cam crooked; perh. akin to E. chamber:
  • FROLICFUL
    Frolicsome.
  • MERRYMAKER
    One who makes merriment or indulges in conviviality; a jovial comrade.
  • ENTERTAINMENT
    1. The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general. The entertainment of Christ by faith. Baxter. The sincere entertainment and practice of the precepts of the
  • SPORTULA
    A gift; a present; a prize; hence, an alms; a largess. To feed luxuriously, to frequent sports and theaters, to run for the sportula. South.
  • FROLIC
    Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry. The frolic wind that breathes the spring. Milton. The gay, the frolic, and the loud. Waller. (more info) fr, Dan. fro, OS. fr, cf. Icel. fr swift; all
  • SPORTSMAN
    One who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts, fishes, etc.
  • DISPORT
    Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton.
  • MISTRANSPORT
    To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
  • TRANSPORTING
    That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
  • UNWEARY
    To cause to cease being weary; to refresh. Dryden.
  • TRANSPORTAL
    Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
  • TRANSPORTABILITY
    The quality or state of being transportable.
  • TRANSPORTED
    Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.
  • DISPORTMENT
    Act of disporting; diversion; play. Dr. H. More.
  • TRANSPORT
    1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt. 2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish. 3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as
  • LIFE-WEARY
    Weary of living. Shak.
  • TRANSPORTABLE
    1. Capable of being transported. 2. Incurring, or subject to, the punishment of transportation; as, a transportable offense.
  • OVERWEARY
    To weary too much; to tire out. Dryden.

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