preening
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -iːnɪŋ
Verb edit
preening
- present participle and gerund of preen
Noun edit
preening (plural preenings)
- A grooming or posturing.
- 2008 April 1, Alastair Macaulay, “Miami Spice: Saucy Club Crawlers Flirt, Sulk and Spar to a Crossover Beat”, in New York Times[1]:
- Katia Carranza, Jennifer Carlynn Kronenberg and Callie Manning are asked to do standard Hispanic preenings: hands on hips, placing weight on one leg while displaying the other thigh.