dress up vs primp

dress up and primp both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dress up	No	No	Yes	No
primp	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, primp is a hyponym of dress up; that is, primp is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than dress up:

dress up: put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
primp: dress or groom with elaborate care

Other hyponyms of dress up include dress, plume, preen, prank, tart up, enrobe, bedizen, dizen.

dress up (verb)	primp (verb)
put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive	dress or groom with elaborate care
dress in a costume
dress in a certain manner
make something appear superficially attractive
put a caparison on