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Meaning of perken | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

To make or become perked or perky.

ambitransitive, nonstandard

Examples

“Us perkened so, staring at each other, not rightly knowing one the other—such a goodly percentage of familiar skin now been quenched back of hiding cloth.”
“She saw⟳ him and kind of perkened up [perked up] her gait a little bit.”
“But Lawrence,” he adds, perkening, “I hope⟳ you were planning to take⟳ my Elizabethan poets course next year?””

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

perkened perkening perkens perking perking one's ears perking up

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