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perjink, a. Sc.|pəˈdʒɪŋk|
Also 9 prejink, per-, prejinct.
[Origin unknown. The word has the form of a Fr. or L. derivative; Jam. suggests a F. *parjoint or L. *perjunctus; but these words, even if they existed, would hardly give the sense.]
Exact, precise, minutely accurate; prim, neat.
1808Jamieson, Perjink, 1. Exact, precise, minutely accurate; prejink, Fife. 2. Trim, so as to appear finical. 1821Galt Ann. Parish xxxvii. 299 All my things were kept by her in a most perjinct and excellent order. 1843A. Bethune Sc. Fireside Stor. 121 She was a perjink body, and carried her head our heigh. 1889Barrie Window in Thrums xiv, He was looking unusually perjink.
β1808Prejink [see above]. 1822Galt Provost xxvii. 203 The exposure that prejink Miss Peggy had made of herself. 1829Blackw. Mag. XXVI. 242 A prim and prejink⁓looking fellow. 1839Moir Mansie Wauch xxiv. 306 Mr. Batter..looked as prejinct as a pikestaff.
Hence perˈjinks (pre-) n. pl., in phr. on one's perjinks, on one's good behaviour, careful of details; perˈjinkety (pre-) a. = perjink; perˈjinkity (pre-) n., in pl., exact details, niceties, proprieties; perˈjinkly (pre-) adv., with minute accuracy, primly.
1822Galt Sir A. Wylie xl. II. 68 If we maun be on our prejincks, will you an' her baith rin awa thegither? 1822― Steam-boat ix. 180 A young genteel man, with a most methodical gravat, prejinctly tied. 1830― Lawrie T. v. iv. (1849) 205 Jointures, and tochers, and a' the other prejinkities of marriage-articles. 1887Ruskin Præterita II. 390 [She] had always what my mother called ‘perjinketty’ ways, which made her typically an old maid in later years. |