preen
noun · verbA2Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Danh từ
noun- 1.
A forked tool used by clothiers for dressing cloth.
- 2.
(dialectal)A pin.
- 3.
(dialectal)A bodkin; brooch.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To pin; fasten.
- 2.
(ambitransitive)(of birds, ambitransitive) To groom; to trim or dress the feathers with the beak.
- 3.
(intransitive, reflexive)(of people, intransitive, reflexive) To spend time making oneself attractive and admiring one's appearance, e.g. in front of a mirror.
Đồng nghĩa: primp, smarten up
- 4.
(intransitive)To show off, posture, or smarm.
Đồng nghĩa: flex, fluff one's feathers, swagger, aura farm, boulevardier, cut a wide swath, cut it fat, cut round, exhibitionize, figure away, flamboast, flaunt, flex, floss, fluff one's feathers, gallery, high-side, let one's nuts hang, ostent, ostentate, preen, showboat, show away, show off, strut, strut one's stuff, stunt, swag it out, swagger, swank, three-sheet, venditate, yaya
- 5.
(transitive)To flatter.
Đồng nghĩa: jolly, puff, stroke, brush up to, collogue, flatter, flatterize, glaver, gloze, jolly, lay it on thick, make fair weather, palaver, preen, puff, soothe, speak well of, stroke, tickle the ear
- 6.
(transitive)To comb; to make orderly.
- 7.
(transitive)To trim up, as trees.
- 8.
(broadly, transitive)(transitive, more generally) To improve the appearance of; groom; prettify.
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From Middle English pren, from Old English prēon, from Proto-Germanic *preunaz (compare prjónn, pryne), of uncertain origin, but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *brewn- (protrusion, tip, edge) (compare briaunà edge, brez). Cognate with Pfriem. The verb is from Middle English prenen, from pren (a preen), akin to pfriemen.