Usually means: Grooming feathers or fur meticulously.
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  1. preening: Merriam-Webster
  2. preening: Collins English Dictionary
  3. preening: Vocabulary.com
  4. Preening, preening: Wordnik
  5. preening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. preening: Wiktionary
  7. Preening, preening: Dictionary.com
  8. preening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Preening (bird), Preening: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Preening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Preening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. preening: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. preening: FreeDictionary.org
  14. preening: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (preening)

▸ noun:  A grooming or posturing.

Similar:
dress, plume, primp, pride, congratulate, peacocking, grooming, prettification, deportment, airs and graces, more...

Opposite:
unkempt, untidy

Types:
anointing, grooming, combing, brushing, fluffing, more...

Phrases:
preening over the edge, more...

Adjectives:
mutual, displacement, much, social, little, normal, constant, moral, ordinary, careful, excessive



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Similar:
dress, plume, primp, pride, congratulate, peacocking, grooming, prettification, deportment, airs and graces, more...

Opposite:
unkempt, untidy

Types:
anointing, grooming, combing, brushing, fluffing, more...

Phrases:
preening over the edge, more...

Adjectives:
mutual, displacement, much, social, little, normal, constant, moral, ordinary, careful, excessive



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