Pronk
noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A gait or a leap in which all four legs are used to push off the ground at once.
Verb
- 1 To jump with all four limbs at once.
"Like stotting, pronking is a signal of medium excitation and is performed more often by fawns than by adults (1, 16)."
- 2 jump straight up wordnet
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"Like stotting, pronking is a signal of medium excitation and is performed more often by fawns than by adults (1, 16)."
Etymology
From Afrikaans pronk (“to show off, strut, or prance”), from Dutch pronken (“to show off, be flamboyant”). See also prank.