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单词 perked-up
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perked-upadj.

Brit. /ˈpəːktˌʌp/, U.S. /ˈpərktˌəp/
Forms: 1700s– perked-up, 1800s– pearked-up (English regional (Yorkshire)).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: English perked , up adv.1
Etymology: < perked, past participle of perk v.2 + up adv.1, after to perk up (see perk v.2 3a, 4a, 4b).With sense 1a compare later perked adj.1 and earlier perched adj.1, perk adj., and perking adj. With sense 1b compare slightly earlier perked adj.2
1.
a. Proud, conceited, bold. Cf. perk v.2 1. In later use English regional (northern). Now rare.
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the mind > emotion > pride > [adjective]
highOE
rankOE
proudOE
quaint?c1225
stoutc1315
proud-heartedc1400
gobbedc1440
pridyc1485
high-minded?1503
superb1561
proud-heart1591
tiptoe1593
sublime1596
high-headed1599
magnificent1603
side1673
vaunty1724
perked-up1754
spicy1768
jelly1828
Latin1914
1754 J. Gay Rehearsal at Gotham v. 20 That Creature's Spouse was made a Knight before mine, she always takes occasion to go just before me in all public Places;..one hates to see any body so perk'd up, and so fond of it.
1845 N. P. Willis Dashes at Life with Free Pencil iv. 105 Perked up people think that only such curiosity as would sit well upon George Washington should be catered for in print.
1866 Harper's Mag. Apr. 629 By country I do not mean a perked-up provincial town, with its isolated brick stores, its few feet of flagging, and its plank sidewalks.
1896 Leeds Mercury Weekly Suppl. 6 Jan. in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 475/1 Shoo's nowght but a clever pearked-up thing.
b. U.S. Strengthened, cheered; invigorated, alert. Cf. perk v.2 4b.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [adjective] > refreshed or invigorated
fresha1387
refetc1400
breatheda1425
refect?a1425
restedc1425
well-rested1525
refreshed1552
enlivened1640
renovated1650
invigorate1720
refreshened1764
recreated1832
reanimated1871
reanimate1885
pepped-up1916
perked-up1930
1930 Key West (Florida) Citizen 4 Apr. 2/1 Every former member of the A. E. F...will feel sorter ‘perked up’.
1940 Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 18 July 9/1 (advt.) At every sundown you will feel perked-up because meal-times have not meant standing by a stove.
1953 Independent Record (Helena, Montana) 2 July 9/1 The perked up East Helena team will have the best players available from the City league.
2003 Dayton (Ohio) Daily News (Nexis) 7 Dec. b6 News of a perked-up economy hasn't reached many in need.
2. Erect, raised up. Cf. perk v.2 2a.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [adjective]
steepc1000
tooting?c1225
strutting1387
prominent?1440
extant1540
eminent?1541
pouting1563
poking1566
out1576
egregious1578
promontory1579
out-pointed1585
buttinga1593
outjetting1598
perking1598
jettying1609
juttying1609
out-jutting1611
outstanding1611
upsticking1611
out-shooting1622
jutting1624
outgrowing1625
rank1625
toting1645
projectinga1652
porrected1653
protruded1654
protruding1654
upcast1658
protending1659
jettinga1661
raised1663
starting1680
emersed1686
exerted1697
projective1703
jet-out1709
exorbitant1715
sticking1715
foreright1736
poky1754
perked-up1779
salient1789
prouda1800
overdriven1812
extrusive1816
stand-up1818
shouldering1824
jutty1827
outflung1830
sticky-out1839
sticking-up1852
outreaching1853
protrusive1858
out-thrusting1869
stickout1884
protrudent1891
1779 Pictures of Men, Manners & Times II. 135 The panting gunner, crouching low..and marking well their [sc. larks'] perked-up conscious heads.
1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxvi. 158 It is only our native coachman with his spread-out fan-tail and perked-up crest.
a1854 C. B. Southey Poet. Wks. (1867) 63 The poor old milestone falls, And in its place this smooth, white, perked-up thing, With its great staring figures.
1921 F. S. Mathews Field Bk. Wild Birds & their Music (rev. ed.) 220 A fluffy little ball of mottled brown feathers, with a perked up tail and a bobbing head.
1967 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeology 71 88/1 The present piece [sc. a jug] is rather squat or depressed, which may be a sign that it is early in the sequence, since the tendencies were towards the more ovoid and perked-up shapes.
2003 Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Nexis) 3 Nov. a1 Her [sc. a doe's] wide black eyes and pointy, perked-up ears.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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