Prank

Definition: Prank

Prank

Noun

1. Acting like a clown or buffoon.

2. A ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement.

Verb

1. Dress or decorate showily or gaudily; "Roses were pranking the lawn".

2. Dress up showily; "He pranked himself out in his best clothes".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "prank" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Prank

Amusement

Play; game, game at romps; gambol, romp, prank, antic, rig, lark, spree, skylarking, vagary, monkey trick, gambade, fredaine, escapade, echappee, bout, espieglerie; practical joke; (ridicule).

Caprice

Noun: caprice, fancy, humor; whim, whimsy, whimsey, whimwham; crotchet, capriccio, quirk, freak, maggot, fad, vagary, prank, fit, flimflam, escapade, boutade, wild-goose chase; capriciousness; Adjective: kink.

Ornament

Garnish, trim, dizen, bedizen, prink, prank; trick out, fig out; deck, bedeck, dight, bedight, array; begawd, dress, dress up; spangle, bespangle, powder; embroider, work; chase, emboss, fret, emblazon; illuminate; illustrate.

Crosswords: Prank

I don't know you. Prank caller, prank caller (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary)

My first prank phone call (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Prank calls are a criminal offense prosecuted under penal code 653M (Scream 2; writing credit: Kevin Williamson)

And are still more amused by prank phone calls, (What's My Age Again?; performing artist: Blink-182)

Mabel's Latest Prank (1914)

Prank Attack (2001)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Sneaky Snake's Bedtime Prank (reference)

• Hank Prank and Hot Henrietta (reference)

• Hank Prank in Love (reference)

• Jessi's Horrible Prank (Baby-Sitters Club, 75) (reference)

• Portia's Prank (Doggie Tales Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "prank": merry prank ♦ play a prank ♦ play a prank on smb. ♦ prank oneself out ♦ prank oneself up ♦ prank out ♦ prank up ♦ roguish prank ♦ silly prank. Additional references.

Ending with "prank": situ-prank.

Albanian

vesh bukur, stolis (adorn, array, bedizen, deck, decorate, dress, embellish, enchase, ornament, tire, trap, trick up, trim), shaka (badinage, crack, facetiae, gag, hoax, jape, jest, jocosity, jocularity, joke, lark, persiflage, play, pleasantry, quiz, spoof, trick, waggery), rreng (fraud, frolic, hoax, hokey-pokey, kicker, practical joke, rig, trick), i luaj një rreng, harbim rinie, çapkënëri (mischief, monkey tricks, naughtiness). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقلب, ‏مزحة (banter, caper, frolic, game, jest, jocularity, joke, rag, raillery, romp, trick, waggery), ‏حيلة (artifice, deceit, device, dodge, expedient, fetch, finesse, fraud, gag, imposition, makeshift, monkey business, ploy, ruse, sleight, stalking horse, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, twist, wile), ‏طيش (foolishness, frivolity, impetuosity, imprudence, indiscretion, inexpediency, levity, libertinism, light-heartedness, lightness, puerility, rashness, recklessness, temerity, thoughtlessness, unwisdom), ‏خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile). (various references)

Bulgarian 

украсявам (adorn, array, color, colour, deck, decorate, dress, embellish, embroider, enchase, enrich, flatter, garnish, glorify, grace, lard, ornament, set, titivate, trim), шега (chaff, fun, game, hoax, jape, jest, jig, joke, lark, pleasantry, quiz, raillery, rib, sport, tease, trick, waggery), крася (adorn), кича се (overdress), кича (adorn), лудория (antic, caper, devilry, foolishness, gambade, gambado, lark, ploy, rag, romp, shine), перча се (flounce, parade, prance, rodomontade, roister, ruffle, splurge, swagger, swash). (various references)

Czech

vyzdobit (beautify, deck, decorate, furbelow, perk, wreathe), vyfintit se (tog oneself out), žert (fun, gag, jape, jest, joke), šprýmovný (comical, facetious, jocular, joking, prankish), šprým (jape, jest, joke, quirk). (various references)

Farsi 

مزاح (Humor, Wit), تزءین کردن , شوخی زننده , شوخی خرکی (Horseplay), شوخی امیخته بافریب , شوخی (Bob, Curvet, Fun, Game, Gig, Humor, Jape, Jest, Jink, Jocosity, Joke, Lark, Pleasantry, Quiz, Sport, Spree, Witticism), شوخ طبعی (Jocundity). (various references)

Finnish

kuje (lark, trick), kolttonen (trick), ilve (antic). (various references)

French

tour, niche, fredaine, frasque, farce (practical joke). (various references)

German

Possen (antic, antics, buffooneries, burlesques, farces, tomfoolery). (various references)

Greek 

στολίζω (adorn, array, attire, beautify, bespangle, caparison, deck, decorate, doll, doll up, embellish, garnish, ornament, perk, prim, primp, prink, titivate, tog, trim), παιγνίδι (frolic, play, sport, toy, trick), παιδιά (children), αταξία (ataxia, clutter, confusion, disaray, disarray, disorder, irregularity, mess, mischief, mischievousness, naughtiness, shenanighan, wildness). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעש�" יל�"ות, מעש�" קו� �"ס (hoax, jape, lark, practical joke), לצון (fun, jesting, mockery, ridicule, scorn), תעלול (antic, caper, caprice, hoax, machination, mischief, practical joke, quip, rag, trick, whim), קו� �"סות (jape, mischief, practical joke), פעלול (gimmick, special effect, stunt, trick). (various references)

Hungarian

csíny (caper, escapade, freak, lark, mischief, monkeyshine, prat, rig), kópéság (caper, impishness, knavery, monkeyshine). (various references)

Indonesian

gurauan (joke). (various references)

Italian

tiro (cast, draft, draught, draw, drawing, farce, fire, haul, horse, jape, joke, puff, shooting, shot, team, throw, trick), scherzo (banter, child's play, frolic, frolics, gag, game, hoaw, jape, jest, joke, lark, play, quiz, rag, trick, trifle), monelleria, burla (flout, joke, practical joke, quiz, trick). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

悪遊び (evil pleasures, gambling), 悪戯 (mischief, practical joke, tease, trick), 悪巫山戯 (horseplay, mischievous trick, practical joke), 悪ふざけ (horseplay, mischievous trick, practical joke). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いたずら (mischief, practical joke, tease, trick), あくぎ (mischief, practical joke, tease, trick), わるふざけ (horseplay, mischievous trick, practical joke), わるあそび (evil pleasures, gambling). (various references)

Manx

jesheenaghey (adorn, adornment, bedeck, decorate, dress, embellish, emblazon, garnish, painting, painting trade, preen, renovation, set, titivate). (various references)

Pig Latin

ankpray.(various references)

Portuguese

pirraça, pavonear-se (coquet, parade, peacock, prance, strut, swagger), partida (departure, farewell, flit, game, going, lark, leave, leaving, match, parting, party, passing, quiz, sailing, side, start, take-off), travessura (archness, caper, dido, frisk, gambade, hob, mischief, waggery), traquinice, revestir (braze, case, clothe, coat, drape, encase, endue, enrobe, face, fit out, garnish, incase, indue, jacket, overlay, plaster, revet, robe, trim, vesture), ornamentar (adorn, apparel, bedek, decorate, diaper, garnish, lace, ornament, primp), exibir-se (peacock, promenade, show off), enfeitar (apparel, bejewel, caparison, deck, embellish, frill, garnish, groom, ornament, perk, prettify, primp, set out, sugar-coat, titivate, tog oneself up), diabrura (devilry, diablerie, diabolism), brincadeira (a practical joke, badinage, banter, dalliance, diversion, drollery, escapade, frisk, frolic, fun, gag, gambol, game, gibe, gird, hoax, humor, humour, jape, jest, jibe, joke, joking, josh, lark, play, pleasantry, practical joke, raillery, rig, sport, waggery), ataviar (accoutre, adorn, decorate, fig, primp, titivate, tog oneself up), adornar (adorn, attire, bedeck, bejewel, blazon, decorate, fig, gild, grace, illuminate, lard, ornament, purl, set). (various references)

Romanian

poznã (caper, damage, farce, Folly, foolishness, freak, merry prank, mischief, practical trick, roguery), zburdãlnicie (friskiness, frolic, gamboling, mischief, obstreperousness, romp, sportiveness, spree, wantonness), se gãti (array, doll, mum, perk up, preen, prink oneself up, Spruce), se împodobi (dress out, robe), glumã (chaff, farce, frolic, fun, gag, game, jape, jest, joke, lark, play, sport, trick, wheeze, wisecrack, wit, witticism), gãti (attire, caparison, cook, doll, dress, end, fig out, preen, prepare, rig, Spruce, trim), festã (farce, gammon, hoax, practical joke, shuffle), împodobi (adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, caparison, deck, deck out, decorate, drape, dress, embellish, encrust, feather, fig, fig out, fringe, garnish, gild, grace, hang with, ornament, pink, robe, set, smarten up, trap, trim). (various references)

Russian 

выходка (excess, vagrancy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vragolija (devilment, devilry, deviltry, waggery), obest (recalcitrance), šega (jape, jeer). (various references)

Spanish

travesura (devilry, Dido, mischief, trick), trastada (dirty trick, mischief, practical joke), broma (badinage, banter, cantrip, facetiae, fun, gag, jag, jape, jest, joke, lark, panic, pleasantry, quiz), ataviar (apparel, array, attire, doll up, get up, titivate, tog, trick out, trick up). (various references)

Swedish

upptåg (antic, antics, caper, cod, Dido, escapade, Frisk, frolic, fun, gag, gambol, high jinks, jinks, joke, lark, practical joke, rag, spree), tilltag (trick, venture), spratt (Dido, hoax, lark, spoof, trick). (various references)

Turkish

yaramazlık (devilment, devilry, fooling, misbehavior, misbehaviour, mischief, mischievousness, naughtiness, roguery), süslemek (adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, bedight, caparison, crown, damask, deck out, decorate, dike, dizen, doll out, doll up, dress, dress up, embellish, embroider, enamel, enrich, fancy up, fig out, figure, flourish, garnish, gild, gird, grace, interlard, lace, lard, ornament, prank out, prank up, rig, scrimshaw, set, smarten, tart up, tire, titivate, trick out, trick up, trig out, trig up, trim, zing up, zip, zip up), muziplik (caper, Dido, fooling, frolic, hoax, joke, lark, rag, teasing, trick), hava atmak (crow, cut a dash, flaunt, give oneself airs, make a great display, make a show of, put on airs, put on an act, put on dog, put on side, queen it over, show off, splurge, swagger, swank), giydirip kuşatmak (dress, fig out, prank out, prank up, prink), eşek şakası (egg, horseplay, practical joke), donatmak (arm, attire, bedeck, bedight, catch up, damask, deck out, decorate, equip, furnish, gird, invest, ornament, outfit, prank out, prank up, rig, rig out, turn out), şeytanlık (art, arts, craftiness, cunning, devilment, devilry, diabolism, fiendishness, mischief, slyness, wiliness). (various references)

Ukrainian

витівка (caper, contrivance, device, devilment, gambade, gambado, lark, sport), наряджати (array, attire, caparison, doll, prink, rig out, smug), напускати туману, пустощі (naughtiness, roguery, rollick, wantonness). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trò chơi khăm (hoax, practical), trò chơi ác. (various references)

Welsh

pranc (frolic). (various references)

prank. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "prank": pranked, pranking, prankish, prankishly, prankishness, prankishnesses, pranks, prankster, pranksters. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Prank" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: krank, pank, parna, peran, perran, peruano, piank, Porana, praik, prana, prancy, prand, prane, Prann, pranny, prans, prant, Praun, Prentky, princ, Prinn, prinny, Priok, Pronk, prunz, Przno, pwank, pyraniki, rpan, sprank, wrank. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: karn, knap, knar, nark, park, rank.

-2 letters: ark, nap, pan, par, ran, rap.

-3 letters: an, ar, ka, na, pa.

+1 letter: pranks.

+2 letters: knapper, parking, pranked, ranpike, spanker.

+3 letters: bankrupt, crankpin, kidnaper, knappers, minipark, parkings, parkland, partaken, plankter, pranking, prankish, prefrank, ranpikes, spankers, sparking, unpacker.

+4 letters: bankrupts, crankpins, imparking, kidnapers, kidnapper, miniparks, paintwork, panickier, parklands, partaking, pickaroon, plankters, prankster, prebaking, prefranks, preshrank, repacking, reparking, sparkling, spikenard, spinnaker, superbank, unpackers.

+5 letters: bankruptcy, bankrupted, kidnappers, nonspeaker, painkiller, paintworks, pawnbroker, perikaryon, pickaroons, prankishly, pranksters, prefranked, prepacking, presoaking, printmaker, respeaking, spikenards, spinnakers, superbanks.