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US
/ˈpɝki/
]
[ UK /pˈɜːki/ ]
[ UK /pˈɜːki/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness
buoyant spirits
his quick wit and chirpy humor
looking bright and well and chirpy
a perky little widow in her 70s
How To Use perky In A Sentence
- I drove the ecocentric 104bhp BlueMotion, which was thrifty and yet remarkably perky. Car review: VW Golf Cabriolet
- Lee and the production staff take the notebook-paper nudies several steps further still by also offering non-stop peeks up dresses, at flexing crotches, at perky patooties, and so much more.
- But it did come with a really perky blueberry chutney and suitably acidic sour dough toast.
- Jessica had gotten into her perky attitude, and was waving her green and white pompoms in the air even when they weren't doing a choreographed cheer.
- Kahle, like Brand, is boyish, open-faced, and perky beyond his years.
- I shouted back to Jay, tying on my Chinese silk robe and padding into the open-concept kitchen at the beckoning of my perky, morning person roommate.
- Then, one day, a lovely sunny day with great tufts of primroses under the hazels, and many violets dotting the paths, she came in the afternoon to the coops and there was one tiny, tiny perky chicken tinily prancing round in front of a coop, and the mother hen clucking in terror. Lady Chatterley's Lover
- The glut of perky how-to books aimed at young gardeners growing radishes on their city balconies seems to have dried up for now. Times, Sunday Times
- Forget your zippy roadsters, your perky hybrids, your family sedans, your humble pickup trucks - to qualify for this tax break, your road machine has to be bigger than big.
- So, I hot-foot it over there and sample all the soups and go for Perky Squash, which barely won out over the Mushroom Wild Rice. March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground