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Perk   /pərk/   Listen
noun
perk  n.  A perquisite. (informal)


verb
Perk  v. t.  (past & past part. perked; pres. part. perking)  To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of; as, to perk the ears; to perk up one's head.
to perk up one's ears to begin to listen attentively; usually used when something of interest is mentioned in some discourse, after one's attention had lapsed; as, he perked up his ears when he heard his name mentioned.


Perk  v. i.  
1.
To exalt one's self; to bear one's self loftily. "To perk over them."
2.
To act in a jaunty or presumptuous manner.
To perk it, to carry one's self proudly or saucily.


Perk  v. i.  To peer; to look inquisitively.


adjective
Perk  adj.  Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain. "Perk as a peacock."





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"Perk" Quotes from Famous Books



... sir! We all want you to. Father says if there was more gentlemen like you here, Eden Village would perk right up. And Zenas says you and he haven't done nearly all the ...
— The Lilac Girl • Ralph Henry Barbour
... more Must pity drop upon her. Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glist'ring grief, And wear ...
— The Life of Henry VIII • William Shakespeare [Dunlap edition]
... boy!" cried Mr. Tweet. "Fame and fortune await us just ahead. She slows! She creeps! Palada opens her arms to us! Perk up, Hiram! The girl wasn't your kind, my boy. You'd have stepped all over her little feet, and she'd got a divorce and alimony on the ...
— The She Boss - A Western Story • Arthur Preston Hankins
... would be no need for rotten eggs to be flung at us; we should abhor ourselves. You know that is so. I know that it is so about myself, 'and heart answereth to heart as in a glass.' And are we the people to perk ourselves up amongst our fellows, and say, 'I am rich and increased with goods, and have need of nothing'? Do we not know that we are poor and miserable and blind and naked? Oh, brethren, the proud old saying of the Greeks, 'Know thyself,' if it were followed ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII • Alexander Maclaren
... last year, That his little house he built; For he seems to perk and peer, And to twitter, too, and tilt The bare branches in between, With a ...
— Rose and Roof-Tree - Poems • George Parsons Lathrop


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