prink

verb

1. (dialectal, obsolete)to give a wink; to wink.
2. To look, gaze.
3. To dress finely, primp, preen, spruce up.

   “[…] by the Mass: You’ll make excellent Wives, Cuckold your Husbands immoderately: You mind nothing but prinking your selves up.”

   “She put it on, then floated round the room prinking things — the flowers, the ashtrays, Jack's whisky tray — making everything outside herself perfect because nothing inside herself was perfect in the least.”

4. To strut, put on pompous airs, be pretentious.
5. (UK, humorous)To pre-drink.

noun

1. The act of adjusting one's dress or appearance; the act of sprucing oneself up.

   ““Is my sash right; 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.”