Sekirov Dictionary

perk

UK /pɜːk/US /pɝk/

verb 8
noun 3
adjective 1
forms 5
phrases 1

verb8

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To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of.
- [the squirrel] whisks his brush And perks his ears, and stamps and scolds aloud — 1785
•
(informal) To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker.
- I’ll perk some coffee.
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(informal) Of coffee: to be produced by heated water seeping (“percolating”) through coffee grounds.
- The coffee is perking.
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To appear from below or behind something, emerge, pop up, poke out.
- The heads of plants above the crack’d ground perk: — 1640
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(old-fashioned) To peer; to look narrowly, sharply, or inquisitively.
- He is a tall, thin, bony man, with an interrogative nose, and little restless perking eyes, which appear to have been given him for the sole purpose of peeping into other people’s affairs with. — 1835
(dialect) To examine thoroughly.
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(no longer used) To exalt oneself; to bear oneself loftily.
- […] our Lord had never any such design, to set up a sort of men in such distance above their brethren; to perk over them, and suck them of their goods by tricks […] — 1683
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(no longer used) 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. — 1503

noun3

A bonus ability that a player character can acquire; a permanent power-up.
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(informal) Perquisite.
- Free coffee is one of the perks of the job.
A percolator, particularly of coffee.

adjective1

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(no longer used) 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. — 1579

forms

perked · perking · perks · more perk · most perk

Phrases with perk

perk up
To become more upright

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