Usually means: Groomed oneself with excessive care.
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  1. preened: Merriam-Webster
  2. preened: Collins English Dictionary
  3. preened: Vocabulary.com
  4. preened: Wordnik
  5. preened: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. preened: Wiktionary
  7. Preened, preened: Dictionary.com
  8. preened: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Preened: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Preened: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. preened: FreeDictionary.org
  12. preened: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (preen)

noun:  A forked tool used by clothiers for dressing cloth.
noun:  (dialectal) pin
noun:  (dialectal) bodkin; brooch
verb:  (transitive) To pin; fasten.
verb:  (of birds, ambitransitive) To groom; to trim or dress the feathers with the beak.
verb:  (of people, intransitive, reflexive) To spend time making oneself attractive and admiring one's appearance, e.g. in front of a mirror.
verb:  (intransitive) To show off, posture, or smarm.
verb:  (transitive) To flatter.
verb:  (transitive) To comb; to make orderly.
verb:  (transitive) To trim up, as trees.
verb:  (transitive, more generally) To improve the appearance of; groom; prettify.
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