pronk

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).

Where it comes from

From Afrikaans pronk (“to show off, strut, or prance”), from Dutch pronken (“to show off, be flamboyant”). See also prank.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry pronk (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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