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Definition of Pranky
1. of the nature of a prank [adj PRANKIER, PRANKIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pranky
Literary usage of Pranky
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Oriental Illustrations of the Sacred Scripture Collected from the Customs by Joseph Roberts (1835)
"The general name for Europeans in the East is pranky (which is a corruption of the
... Hence those -white Hindoos are, by way of contempt, called pranky! ..."
2. The Minor Elizabethan Drama by Ashley Horace Thorndike (1913)
"So, that is somewhat like, but pranky cote, nay whan? That is a lusty brute;
hands under your side, man. 330 So lo, now is it even as it should be, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1828)
"You remember that I gave you last year the nicest of all little books, about the
strangest and most curious pranky little beings that ever were born— ..."
4. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"So, that is somewhat like; but, pranky-coat, nay when? That is a lusty brute !
hands unto your side, man : So, lo ! now is it even as it should be; ..."
5. Oriental Illustrations of the Sacred Scripture Collected from the Customs by Joseph Roberts (1835)
"The general name for Europeans in the East is pranky (which is a corruption of the
... Hence those -white Hindoos are, by way of contempt, called pranky! ..."
6. The Minor Elizabethan Drama by Ashley Horace Thorndike (1913)
"So, that is somewhat like, but pranky cote, nay whan? That is a lusty brute;
hands under your side, man. 330 So lo, now is it even as it should be, ..."
7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1828)
"You remember that I gave you last year the nicest of all little books, about the
strangest and most curious pranky little beings that ever were born— ..."
8. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"So, that is somewhat like; but, pranky-coat, nay when? That is a lusty brute !
hands unto your side, man : So, lo ! now is it even as it should be; ..."
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