Meaning of perken | Babel Free

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?””

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