Pronking (verb)
pron-king
What springboks do; to bounce, prance and leap the way a springbok does.
late 19th century: from Afrikaans, literally ‘show off’, from Dutch pronken ‘to strut’.
Example sentences
“Look at those pronking Springbok, they look as though they are dancing.”
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