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- verb Present participle of
primp .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun careful or finicky grooming
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Examples
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So all your posturing and primping is based on your own imagination.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Immigration: Costs and Benefits, in Liberty and Otherwise 2010
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So all your posturing and primping is based on your own imagination.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Immigration: Costs and Benefits, in Liberty and Otherwise 2010
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If this is first grade, I am afraid to see what kind of primping obsessions middle school will bring.
venti anni fa 2006
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Michael Anderson: When someone highlighted this last year I actually found one song worth having, that I still listen ... lgreenberg: Funny, I do find myself "primping" a bit before I snap my daily photo.
Gear Diary 2009
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Michael Anderson: When someone highlighted this last year I actually found one song worth having, that I still listen ... lgreenberg: Funny, I do find myself "primping" a bit before I snap my daily photo.
Gear Diary 2009
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Shock Pen - good for laughs - so long as you're not wearing a pacemaker - $2 shipped Just in time for Spring - 400 piece fishing lure assortment - $30 lgreenberg: Funny, I do find myself "primping" a bit before I snap my daily photo.
Gear Diary 2009
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Among the more "device-specific" of these external batteries. lgreenberg: Funny, I do find myself "primping" a bit before I snap my daily photo.
Gear Diary 2009
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But "primping" is, literally, the act of degrossifying yourself.
NOGOODFORME.COM 2009
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Perhaps it is! "sighed her companion, and the two of them, who had been taking surreptitious glances in mirrors, enclosed in the flaps of their bags, ceased" primping, "until they could be sure whether or not there was any object in it.
The Moving Picture Girls at Sea or, A Pictured Shipwreck That Became Real Laura Lee Hope
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Now I do not mean to dismiss the extra primping and preparation that comes with expected visitors.
Bruce Reyes-Chow: Why Churches Should Stop Making A Big Deal Out Of Easter Worship Bruce Reyes-Chow 2011
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