prank

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A practical joke or mischievous trick.
2. (obsolete) An evil deed; a malicious trick, an act of cruel deception.

Verb

1. (transitive) To perform a practical joke on; to trick and make a fool of someone.
2. (transitive) To perform a practical joke on; to trick and make a fool of someone.
3. (slang, transitive) To call someone's phone and hang up before they answer, so as to send them a notification (of a missed call) without incurring fees.
4. (archaic, transitive) To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously.
5. (intransitive) To make an ostentatious show.

Conceptos

broma

🤣

travesura

burla

bufonada

engalanarse

inocentada

jugarreta

picardía

retozo

derrisión

adornar

charlotada

farsa

argado

Sinónimos

trick

joke

🤣

practical joke

jest

escapade

mischief

caper

antic

lark

freak

jape

gag

play

put-on

frivolity

frolic

fun

wisecrack

clowning

harlequinade

buffoonery

mischievous trick

horseplay

dido

teasing

japery

irregularity

mess

mischievous

mischievousness

naughtiness

ornament

overdress

perk

prim

primp

prink

privateer

rig

roguery

romp

ruse

shenanigan

strike

tease

titivate

tog

toy

trim

vagrancy

Traducciones

burla

Streich

Schabernack

farce

beffa

🤣

travessura

plaisanterie

🤣

trote

grap

🤣

φάρσα

streek

frasque

scherzo

🤣

oyun

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/pɹæŋk/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: pranken

Cognado con alemán: prangen

Cognado con neerlandés: prangen

Cognado con danés: pragt

Cognado con neerlandés: pracht

Cognado con sueco: prakt

Cognado con Middle Low German: prunken

Cognado con alemán: prunken

Cognado con danés: prunke

In summary

Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English pranken (“to adorn, arrange one's attire”), probably from Middle Dutch pronken, proncken (“to flaunt, make a show, arrange one's attire”), related to German prangen (“to make a show, be resplendent”), Dutch prangen (“to squeeze, press”), Danish pragt (“pomp, splendor”), all from Proto-Germanic *pranganą, *prangijaną, *prag- (“to press, squeeze, thring”), from Proto-Indo-European *brAngh- (“to press, squeeze”). Or, perhaps ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *brahtaz, similar to Dutch pracht (“splendor”), Swedish prakt (“glory, pomp”) (loaned from Low German).
Cognate with Middle Low German prunken (“to flaunt”), German prunken (“to flaunt”), Danish prunke (“to make a show, prank”). Sense of "mischievous act" from earlier verbal sense of "to be crafty or subtle, set in order, adjust". See also prink, prance, prong.