perk¹ /pûrk/

1. To bear oneself with self-confidence or self-assertion
2. To cock up
3. To stick out
4. To thrust forward (also transitive verb with it)
5. To move with pert briskness
6. To sit upright
7. To cock or toss or hold up the head
8. To dress smartly, dress up

1. Brisk
2. Self-confident in manner

perkˈily adverb

perkˈiness noun

perkˈy adjective

1. Self-assertive
2. Cocky
3. Pert
4. In good spirits

perk up

1. To recover spirits or energy, esp in sickness
2. To jerk up, cock up
3. To decorate so as to look newer, more interesting, etc, to smarten up

perk² /pûrk/ (informal)

perk³ /pûrk/ (informal)

To percolate (coffee)

A coffee percolator

perquisite /pûrˈkwi-zit/

1. (often informally shortened to perk) an incidental benefit from one's employment
2. A casual profit
3. Anything left over that a servant or other has by custom a right to keep
4. A tip expected on some occasions
5. Property acquired otherwise than by inheritance (law; obsolete)
6. Emoluments
7. Something regarded as falling to one by right

perquisition /-zishˈən/ noun

1. A strict search
2. Diligent inquiry

perquisˈitor noun

The first purchaser of an estate

• look-ins
• look in the face
• look into
• lookism
• lookisms
• look like
• look like a million dollars
• look lively
• look on
• look on the bright side
• look out
• lookout
• lookouts
• look over
• look-round
• look-rounds
• looks
• look-see
• look-sees
• look sharp
• look sick
• look slippy
• look small
• look smart
• look snappy