perken
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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Synonyms
- perk
Anagrams
- Kepner
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɛr.kə(n)/
- Hyphenation: per‧ken
- Rhymes: -ɛrkən
Etymology 1
From perk + -en.
Verb
perken
- (transitive) to enclose, to keep in check with fencing
- (transitive) to close off with barriers
Inflection
| Inflection of perken (weak) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | perken | |||
| past singular | perkte | |||
| past participle | geperkt | |||
| infinitive | perken | |||
| gerund | perken n | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | perk | perkte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | perkt | perkte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | perkt | perkte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | perkt | perkte | ||
| 3rd person singular | perkt | perkte | ||
| plural | perken | perkten | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | perke | perkte | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | perken | perkten | ||
| imperative sing. | perk | |||
| imperative plur.1 | perkt | |||
| participles | perkend | geperkt | ||
| 1) Archaic. | ||||
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
perken
- Plural form of perk