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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



... the world what we were, and what we had done, there 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 out unflinchingly and ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII • Alexander Maclaren
... blow to amount to much," observed Mr. Speed, trying to perk up, though he was hanging on by both hands to avoid bring blown ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day
... this case he did appear Like a slop-merchant from Wapping, And with smug face, and eye severe, On every side did perk and peer Till he saw Peter dead ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I • Percy Bysshe Shelley
... of the station, Henry Shepard stood with his hand on the door-jamb and watched the woman and the boy. Above the scolding voice of the woman his own voice arose. "Look out, Hugh," he called. "Be on the jump, lad! Perk yourself up. She'll be biting you if you don't go mighty careful ...
— Poor White • Sherwood Anderson
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— McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book • W. H. McGuffey


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