Other forms: primping
To primp is to fuss over your appearance. Primp in the mirror, primping for an hour, stop primping.
It is mocking, and it usually implies vanity and delay. Preen is its near neighbour and is a little kinder. The word is a sixteenth-century variant of prim, which meant formally neat before it meant prudish.
1verbprimpTo fuss over your appearance.
“She spent ages primping in front of the mirror before the party.”
primp is a fussing.
Also accepted in games: preen
A sixteenth-century variant of prim, which first meant formally neat.
16th century, a variant of prim.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire