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  • adjective Of an animal, especially a horse, tending to prance.

Etymologies

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prance +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Wishing you a joyous, thoughtful, kind and prancy year-end as the door opens to new beginnings.

    Deborah Jiang Stein: What Matters? Deborah Jiang Stein 2011

  • Wishing you a joyous, thoughtful, kind and prancy year-end as the door opens to new beginnings.

    Deborah Jiang Stein: What Matters? Deborah Jiang Stein 2011

  • Wishing you a joyous, thoughtful, kind and prancy year-end as the door opens to new beginnings.

    Deborah Jiang Stein: What Matters? Deborah Jiang Stein 2011

  • Wishing you a joyous, thoughtful, kind and prancy year-end as the door opens to new beginnings.

    Deborah Jiang Stein: What Matters? Deborah Jiang Stein 2011

  • After the performance, Mr. Talley brushed off the idea that he was maybe a little out of his depth with all this prancy modern-dance stuff.

    Fucking Articulate 2004

  • Roland came last, short - leading the nervous, prancy gelding.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • She was so happy that she played it in a very prancy way, up and down, up and down.

    The Girl Scouts at Home, or, Rosanna's Beautiful Day Katherine Keene Galt

  • A very prancy horse, discovering an oyster on the sea-shore, thought to show off a little and make the oyster envious.

    Fables For The Times H. W. Phillips

  • I feel so strong and prancy all the time that I can't keep from bubbling.

    The Melting of Molly Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

  • I feel so good and strong and prancy all the time that I can't keep from bubbling.

    The Melting of Molly Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

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