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perjink

perjink adjective: meticulously neat and precise; prim or finicky.

Adjective

perjink (comparative more perjink, superlative most perjink)

  1. (Scotland) Meticulously neat and precise; prim or finicky.
    • All my things were kept by her in a most perjink and excellent order, but they soon fell into an amazing confusion, for, as she often said to me, I had a turn for heedlessness;[…].1822, John Galt, Annals of the Parish; or, the Chronicles of Dalmailing, page 299
    • No, Glenroy, I have more sense than to think that Inch Orran would behave in such a way as that; but I don't like people being so perjink in paying back their entertainments.1831, Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, Destiny; or, The Chief's Daughter, page 165

Forms of perjink

comparativemore perjink
superlativemost perjink
alternative formprejink

Words formed from perjink

Questions about perjink

What does perjink mean?
Perjink means meticulously neat and precise; prim or finicky.
What part of speech is perjink?
Perjink is an adjective.

Words near perjink in the dictionary

  1. Perizzite
  2. Perizzites
  3. periœci
  4. periœcus
  5. Perișani
  6. perjink
  7. perjinkety
  8. perjorative
  9. perjurable
  10. perjure
  11. perjured

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