preening

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noun

A grooming or posturing.

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Meanings

nounpreening (plural preenings)

plural preenings

  1. A grooming or posturing.

    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.

    2008 April 1, Alastair Macaulay, “Miami Spice: Saucy Club Crawlers Flirt, Sulk and Spar to a Crossover Beat”, in New York Times
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of preen

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with preening

cleaningmeaningscreeningleaningweaninggreeninggleaningoverweening
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Cite this entry
APA

preening. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/preening

MLA

“preening.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/preening. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “preening,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/preening.

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