1 ~ (yourself) (usually disapproving) to spend a lot of time making yourself look attractive and then admiring your appearance:
[VN] Will you stop preening yourself in front of the mirror? [also V]
2 [VN] ~ yourself (on sth) (usually disapproving) to feel very pleased with yourself about sth and show other people how pleased you are
3 [V, VN] ~ (itself) (of a bird) to clean itself or make its feathers smooth with its beak
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for preen is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is preen a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, preen is tagged as verb.
Does preen appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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