Word.ws English Dictionary

perkyish

perkyish adjective: somewhat perky.

Adjective

perkyish (not comparable)

  1. Somewhat perky.

Origin of perkyish

From perky + -ish.

Questions about perkyish

What does perkyish mean?
Perkyish means somewhat perky.
What part of speech is perkyish?
Perkyish is an adjective.

Words near perkyish in the dictionary

  1. perks up
  2. perks up one's ears
  3. perky
  4. Perky effect
  5. Perky effects
  6. perkyish
  7. Perl
  8. perlaceous
  9. perlapine
  10. perlative
  11. perlatolic acid

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: perkyish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-perkyish.wav.

Cite this entry: “perkyish.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/perkyish. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.