perjink
/pəˈdʒɪŋk/Scottish
adjective
Exact, precise, extremely accurate.
noun
A person who is fastidious or very neat. With the and plural concord: perjink people collectively.
Origin
Late 18th century; earliest use found in Robert Forbes (bap. 1708, d. 1775), Jacobite annalist and Scottish Episcopal bishop of Ross and Caithness. Origin uncertain; perhaps from per- + a second element ultimately of imitative origin.
- get (or be) even
- get (or be given) a guernsey
- get (or be given) the gate
- get (or be) in on the act
- get (or be or go) beyond a joke
- get (or be) shot of
- get (or be) spliced
- get (or catch) it in the neck
- get (or give someone) a fair shake
- get (or give someone) ideas
- get (or give someone) the hook
- get (or give someone) the push (or shove)
- get (or go) back to nature
- get (or go) nowhere
- get (or have) a load on
- get (or have) one's ducks in a row
- get (or have) one's end away
- get (or have) one's (own) way
- get (or have or give someone) the hump
- get (or have) someone by the short and curlies (or short hairs)
- get (or have) the goods on
- get (or have) the jump on someone
- get (or have) the worst of it
- get (or keep) one's eye in
- get (or keep) one's hand in