perk
noun
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Pronunciation: /pɝk/ / /pɜːk/
adj
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps a metathesis of prick.
- Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain.
“My ragged rontes all shiver and shake, As doen high Towers in an earthquake: They wont in the wind wagge their wrigle tailes, Perke as Peacock: but nowe it auales.”
“All, joy’d at th’ omen, their foundation laid: And in short time a perk new wall is made.”
noun
Etymology: Clipping of percolate (verb) and percolator (noun).
- A percolator, particularly of coffee.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English perken, from Old Northern French perquer.
- To perch.
“His seconde hawke wexyd gery And was with flyenge wery. She had flowyn so oft, That on the rode loft She perkyd her to rest.”
“Then sir, let me say, that Mineruas owle was proude, for perking vnder [h]ir golden target […]”