All preen synonyms

verb preen

• jive — swing music or early jazz.
• doll up — a small figure representing a baby or other human being, especially for use as a child's toy.
• blow smoke — (Idiomatic) To speak with a lack of credibility, sense, purpose, or truth; to speak nonsense.
• give a good account of oneself — If you say that someone gave a good account of themselves in a particular situation, you mean that they performed well, although they may not have been completely successful.
• groom — a bridegroom.
• fit out — adapted or suited; appropriate: This water isn't fit for drinking. A long-necked giraffe is fit for browsing treetops.
• overbear — to bear over or down by weight or force: With his superior strength he easily overbore his opponent in the fight.
• lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
• jiving — swing music or early jazz.
• overdress — a dress worn over another, which it covers either partially or completely.
• overdressed — Simple past tense and past participle of overdress.
• flatter oneself — to hold the self-satisfying or self-deluding belief (that)
• gussied up — dressed in a showy way
• boast — If someone boasts about something that they have done or that they own, they talk about it very proudly, in a way that other people may find irritating or offensive.
• dress up — of or for a dress or dresses.
• cock-a-doodle-doo — an imitation or representation of a cock crowing
• gussy up — to enhance the attractiveness of in a gimmicky, showy manner (usually followed by up): a room gussied up with mirrors and lights.
• deck out — If a person or thing is decked out with or in something, they are decorated with it or wearing it, usually for a special occasion.