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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



... end Coleman arose and strolled out of the. room, smoking a cigarette. He did not betray, a sign. Before. the door clashed softly behind him, Nora laughed a little defiantly, perhaps a little loudly. It made every man in the grill-room perk up his ears. As for her courtiers, they were entranced. In her description of the conquering man, she had easily contrived that each one of them wondered if she might not mean him. Each man was perfectly sure ...
— Active Service • Stephen Crane
... wishing that Archie would enter into the spirit of the thing a little more and perk up, instead of sitting there looking like a codfish. The thing seemed to have ...
— Death At The Excelsior • P. G. Wodehouse
... always a scrap day, so I try to kinder perk up my Monday supper. Singing in the quire twict on Sunday and too much confab with the other men on the store steps always kinder tires Mr. Rucker out so he can't hardly get about with his sciatica on Monday, and I have to humor him some along through the day. ...
— Rose of Old Harpeth • Maria Thompson Daviess
... in 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 ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I • Percy Bysshe Shelley
... him temporarily until Charles became reconciled to Henry, and then he dropped Perkin like a heated potato. Perk, however, had been well entertained in Paris as the coming English king, and while there was not permitted to pay for a thing. He now visited the Duchess of Burgundy, sister of Edward IV., and made a hit at once. She gave him the title of The White Rose of England ...
— Comic History of England • Bill Nye


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