perk

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

Lively; brisk; holding up the head.--Webster. This old word, still provincial in England, is used in the interior


of New England, and is commonly pronounced peark (the ea as in pear).--Pickering.

My ragged ronts

They wont in the wind wag their wriggle tails,

Perk as a peacock; but now it avails.--Shepherd's Calendar.

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