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单词 perkiness
释义
perkyperk‧y /ˈpɜːki $ ˈpɜːrki/ adjective informal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINperky
Origin:
1800-1900 perk ‘to behave confidently and cheerfully’; PERK1
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • You're awfully perky this morning, Debbie.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Ashworth is certainly out-going and in-thinking, a perky televisual subject.
  • He couldn't stand Margaret when she was in one of her perky moods.
  • He gave the impression of a perky little high school speaking champ who had just won his first debate.
  • He sounded like a perky little old man.
  • Nothing in the script, or Auteuil's perky, craggy face can really tell us.
  • Steinhardt strayed from pitch in the perky finale of K. 160; cellist David Soyer nibbled at notes.
  • Then, once we got to McDougal Road, he was perky and wanted to talk.
  • What happens is big, manly chords nuzzled up to perky little hooks that can start the most disaffected wall-huggers dancing.
confident, happy, and active:  a perky salesgirlperkily adverbperkiness noun [uncountable]
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