(n): foolish or senseless behavior
(n): a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
(n): an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates
(v): dress or decorate showily or gaudily
(v): make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
(v): dress up showily
(v): put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
Your uncle, the mercer, regaled us yesterday with a fête champêtre, and paid the piper handsomely. There were ten of the best grown boys, and ten young girls, dressed out in pastoral weeds; all the frippery in his shop was brought out to prank them up.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 2 ch. 9
For he rolls upon prank to work it in. from Christopher Smart's Jubilate Agno ... clearly used in a more antique sense ... what is it?
and also ... Let Anna bless God with the Cat, who is worthy to be presented before the throne of grace, when he has trampled upon the idol in his prank.