What is the answer to the crossword clue "primp"?

There is more than one. 3 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Five squares covers all three answers, so the crossings decide this one entirely. PREEN is the most common in puzzles and the closest in meaning.

How many letters is the answer to "primp"?

Anything from 5 to 5. The length with the most candidates is 5. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.

How reliable are these answers?

3 of the 3 appear in two independently compiled reference works, WordNet and Moby Thesaurus, rather than one. All of them are in the 173,000-word dictionary this site searches. None of them comes from any published puzzle.

Crossword clue

Primp crossword clue

3 words in our dictionary can answer the crossword clue "primp", from as short as 5 letters up to 5, grouped below by the length of your slot.

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Answers by length

Everything below fits the clue. What separates them is length, running from 5 letters to 5, so find your row and ignore the rest.

Letters	Answers
5	dressconfirmed by two sources plumeconfirmed by two sources preenconfirmed by two sources

What this list looks like

The 5-letter row is the crowded one, holding 3 of the 3.

Which one does the setter mean?

Five squares covers all three answers, so the crossings decide this one entirely. PREEN is the most common in puzzles and the closest in meaning.

How these differ

All three are about attending to your appearance. PREEN is what a bird does to its feathers and transfers exactly, carrying a hint of self-satisfaction: to preen oneself is to be visibly pleased. PLUME is the same metaphor from the same source and now survives mainly in to plume oneself on something, meaning to take credit. DRESS is the general word and the least loaded. Primp itself is probably related to prim, and both suggest fussiness rather than vanity.

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Where these answers come from

Worth saying where this list comes from. Every word above is recorded by WordNet as meaning “primp” or as naming a kind of it, and each one is in the 173,000-wordlist this site searches. Moby Thesaurus lists 3 of them too. We hold no newspaper's answer key and reproduce no published crossword.

Common questions

What is the answer to the crossword clue "primp"?: There is more than one. 3 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Five squares covers all three answers, so the crossings decide this one entirely. PREEN is the most common in puzzles and the closest in meaning.
How many letters is the answer to "primp"?: Anything from 5 to 5. The length with the most candidates is 5. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.
How reliable are these answers?: 3 of the 3 appear in two independently compiled reference works, WordNet and Moby Thesaurus, rather than one. All of them are in the 173,000-word dictionary this site searches. None of them comes from any published puzzle.