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adjective
Perky  adj.  Perk; pert; jaunty; trim. "There amid perky larches and pines."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Perky" Quotes from Famous Books



... attribute not often lacking in humorists who command high salaries because of their facility in laughter-making. This man, too, had the wide, thin-lipped, mobile mouth of the actor. His ivory-white, wrinkled forehead and cheeks, the bluish tint on jaws and chin, his voice, his perky air, the very tilt of his straw hat, were eloquent of the footlights. Even his opening words, bizarre and cheerfully impertinent, smacked of ...
— The Postmaster's Daughter • Louis Tracy

... the fat old women in holiday market costumes, strong-featured, positive, who shook their heads at each other and nodded violently and incessantly, and all talked at once; the old men in rusty suits, thin, with a deprecatory manner, as if they had heard that clatter for fifty years, and perky, sharp-faced girls in vegetable hats, all long-nosed and thin-lipped. And though the day was cool, mosquitoes had the bad taste to invade the train. At the junction, a small collection of wooden shanties, where the travelers waited an ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... although they do very little for you. Perhaps the most attractive of small foreign birds is the avadavat, a tiny, perky little soldier. These live quite comfortably together; and indeed, if it is permitted, you should certainly, for the non-singing birds, have a large cage and keep many such birds in it rather than put them in small cages. They will ...
— What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes • Dorothy Canfield Fisher



Words linked to "Perky" :   cheerful, buoyant, chirpy



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