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Definitions for preen
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Princeton's WordNet
preen, plumeverb
clean with one's bill
"The birds preened"
preen, congratulateverb
pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement
preen, primp, plume, dressverb
dress or groom with elaborate care
"She likes to dress when going to the opera"
GCIDE
Preenverb
Hence: To dress (oneself) carefully or stylishly; to primp.
Preenverb
To pride (oneself) on one's accomplishments; to congratulate (oneself).
Preenverb
To feel proud of one's achievement; to swell or gloat.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Preenverb
To trim the feathers of birds, to enable them to glide more easily through the air: for this use nature has furnished them with two peculiar glands, which secrete an unctuous matter into a perforated oil bag, out of which the bird, on occasion, draws it with its bill. Nathan Bailey
Etymology: priinen, Dutch, to dress or prank up.
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preen
To preen means to devote effort to making oneself look attractive, often by adjusting one's clothes, hair, or makeup, often out of vanity or pride. Meanwhile, in zoology, it refers to a bird's grooming behavior of cleaning and straightening its feathers with its beak.
Webster Dictionary
Preennoun
a forked tool used by clothiers in dressing cloth
Preennoun
to dress with, or as with, a preen; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers; -- said of birds
Preennoun
to trim up, as trees
Etymology: [See Preen, n.; or cf. Prune.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Preen
prēn, v.t. to compose and arrange as birds do their feathers. [Prune (v.).]
Preen
prēn, n. (Scot.) a pin.—v.t. to fasten. [A.S. preón, a pin.]
Anagrams for preen »
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repen
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of preen in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of preen in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of preen in a Sentence
Hayward Beach asserted that Alexander the Great designed and named an instrument to preen the fur and whiskers of his 'camp-felines', the 'catacomb':
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