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English
Etymology
From perk + -en.
Verb
perken (third-person singular simple present perkens, present participle perkening, simple past and past participle perkened)
- (transitive, intransitive, nonstandard) To make or become perked or perky.
2001, Allan Gurganus, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, page 599: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.
2009, Mariella Glenn Hartsfield, Tall Betsy and Dunce Baby, page 72:She saw him and kind of perkened up [perked up] her gait a little bit.
2011, Lynn Coady, Mean Boy:But Lawrence,” he adds, perkening, “I hope you were planning to take my Elizabethan poets course next year?”
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From perk + -en.
Verb
perken
- (transitive) to enclose, to keep in check with fencing
- (transitive) to close off with barriers
Conjugation
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
perken
- plural of perk