Perk

Definition: Perk

Perk

Noun

1. An incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right); "a limousine is one of the fringe benefits of the job".

Verb

1. Gain or regain energy.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "perk" was first used: sometime in the late 14th century. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Perk

Cheerfulness

Verb: be cheerful; Adjective: have the mind at ease, smile, put a good face upon, keep up one's spirits; view the bright side of the picture, view things en couleur de rose; ridentem dicere virum, cheer up, brighten up, light up, bear up; chirp, take heart, cast away care, drive dull care away, perk up.

Cheer, enliven, elate, exhilarate, gladden, inspirit, animate, raise the spirits, inspire; perk up; put in good humor; cheer the heart, rejoice the heart; delight; (give pleasure).

Clothing

Vest, clothe, array, dress, dight, drape, robe, enrobe, attire, apparel, accounter, rig, fit out; deck; (ornament); perk, equip, harness, caparison.

Elevation

Verb: heighten, elevate, raise, lift, erect; set up, stick up, perch up, perk up, tilt up; rear, hoist, heave; uplift, upraise, uprear, upbear, upcast, uphoist, upheave; buoy, weigh mount, give a lift; exalt; sublimate; place on a pedestal, set on a pedestal.

Pride

Verb: be proud; Adjective: put a good face on; look one in the face; stalk abroad, perk oneself up; think no small beer of oneself; presume, swagger, strut; rear one's head, lift up one's head, hold up one's head; hold one's head high, look big, take the wall, " bear like the Turk no rival near the throne ", carry with a high hand; ride the high horse, mount on one's high horse; set one's back up, bridle, toss the head; give oneself airs; (assume); boast.

Refreshment

Breathe, respire; drink in the ozone; take a break, take a breather, take five, draw breath, take a deep breath, take breath, gather breath, take a long breath, regain breath, recover breath; get better, raise one's head; recover one's strength, regain one's strength, renew one's strength; perk up, get one's second wind.

Crosswords: Perk

Dutch (bed, boundary, frontier, lawn, limit).

So remember, if my financial situation doesn't perk up, and fast, I'm gonna tell Mommy what you do with her pantyhose, okay (Girls on Top; writing credit: Dawn French; Jennifer Saunders)

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Books

• Dressings and Marinades: Perk Up Your Salads, Stir-Fries, and Barbecues With over 30 Great Recipes (Cook's Essentials) (reference)

• Fall Fancies: To Perk Up Primary Programs (Kids' Stuff Series) (reference)

• Jacques Perk (reference)

• Perk!: The Story of a Teenager With Bulimia (reference)

• Spring Sparkers: To Perk Up Primary Programs (Kids' Stuff Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Perk Up (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Melitta Java Perk Stainless Percolator (10-cup) (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Demonstrating oxygen mask. After arriving at 11,000 feet altitude fresh from sea level, one often feels the need to perk up a little with oxygen before starting the day's work. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

You ought to perk up, sir : it's time you started getting around a little now. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Economic History

Australia

The one-time consumption effects of the GST aside, 2000 also saw a cyclical decline in domestic demand, brought about by a tightening of monetary policy by the Reserve Bank of Australia during late 1999-mid 2000. The Reserve Bank lifted rates during a period of exceptionally strong growth as a pre-emptive strike against inflationary pressures and an expanding external deficit, but by early 2001 had lowered rates to their previous levels in an effort to kick-start the housing sector and perk up domestic demand generally. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "perk": perk oneself ♦ perk oneself up ♦ perk up ♦ perk up one's ears ♦ To perk it. Additional references.

Albanian

përfitim (advantage, benefit, good, percentage, perquisite, profit), ngreh veshët (prick up one's ears), ngrefosem, ngre kokën, kapardisem me rrobat, gjallërohem (be vivified, become spry, brighten, buck up, liven, liven up, take courage). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تغطرس (hector, strut), ‏تزين (dressing up, make up, making up, pompon, posh up, primp, robe, titivate, toilet), ‏تجمل (forbear, forbearance, make up, posh up, prettify), ‏إسترد صحته, ‏رفع معنوياته (buck up, pep up, put in, raise, revive smb.'s sprits), ‏دخل إضافي (perquisite). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съвземам се (breathe, get over, improve, recover, respire), развеселявам се (be amused), вирвам глава, вирвам, оживявам се (light up), опервам се (fledge), наострям (point, set, sharpen), перя се (swank), издокарвам (pipeclay, rig out, rig up, spruce up). (various references)

Chinese 

津贴 (Grants). (various references)

Czech

vyzdobit (beautify, deck, decorate, furbelow, prank, wreathe), vystrojit (accoutre, equip, rig out, trick out, trick up), vypínat se (go off, tower). (various references)

Farsi 

سینه جلودادن , سربالاگرفتن , صاف کردن (Clear, Even, Face, Fine, Hone, Pave, Percolate, Plane, Serene, Sleek, Smooth, Strain, Unwrap, Urbanize), خودراگرفتن (Prim), جوشیدن (Bubble, Gurgle, Seethe), اراستن (Apparel, Arrange, Array, Attire, Brave, Clothe, Embroider, Equip, Grace, Groom, Habit, Illustrate, Line, Pretty, Prim, Primp, Prune, Range, Rank, Stud, Tidy, Trim), بادکردن (Bag, Bloat, Brag, Bulge, Distend, Heave, Inflate, Swell). (various references)

French

profit du travail, s'embellir, se retaper, se ragaillardir, se parer, se faire beau, s'animer (pep up), remonter le moral (pep up), dresser l'oreille, dresser la tête, être arrogant. (various references)

German

wieder aufleben (perk up), vorteil (account, advantage, avail, benefit, gain, good, profit, Van, vantage, virtue), vergünstigung (abatement, benefit, discount, favour, grace, perquisite, privilege, rebate, reduction), munter werden (perk up). (various references)

Greek 

στολίζω (adorn, array, attire, beautify, bespangle, caparison, deck, decorate, doll, doll up, embellish, garnish, ornament, prank, prim, primp, prink, titivate, tog, trim), ξαναζωντανεύω (resuscitate, revitalise), ζωηρεύω (jazz, jazz up, liven, liven up, pep up), ορθούμαι (ramp). (various references)

Hebrew 

�"כ� ס�" צ�"�"ית (income on the side, perquisite). (various references)

Hungarian

extra jövedelem. (various references)

Indonesian

membusungkan dada. (various references)

Italian

vantaggio (account, advantage, asset, avail, behoof, benefit, boon, convenience, forehand, gain, odds, plus, profit, selling point, start, stead, usefulness, utility, vantage, virtue). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

肩�'�'らせる (to perk upone's shoulders). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かた�'いからせる (to perk upone's shoulders). (various references)

Manx

bioyrid y ghoaill. (various references)

Pig Latin

erkpay.(various references)

Portuguese

privilégio (appurtenance, charter, concession, franchise, liberty, perquisite, prerogative, privelege, privilege, right), petulante (flip, hoity-toity, huffish, hussy, malapert, pert, petulant, sassy, waspish), soberbo (arrogant, glorious, imperious, lofty, lovely, majestic, proud, proud-spirited, superb), recuperar-se (collect, perk up), melhorar o aspecto de, enfeitar (apparel, bejewel, caparison, deck, embellish, frill, garnish, groom, ornament, prank, prettify, primp, set out, sugar-coat, titivate, tog oneself up), empertigar-se, embelezar (accoutre, aggrandize, beautify, deck, dress, embellish, embroider, flatter, garnish, glorify, grace, ornament, prettify, sugar-coat), arrogante (arrogant, assuming, big, cockish, flatulent, haughty, huffish, imperious, lord-like, overbearing, proud, proud-spirited, self-assertive, self-confident, self-pride, self-sufficient, snippy, stuck-up, supercilious, uppish, upstage), arrebitar (turn up), animar (actuate, animate, assure, awake, awaken, brighten, brisk, calorify, cheer, cherish, chirk, comfort, embolden, encourage, enliven, ensoul, exhilarate, flush, ginger, grandmother, hearten, heat, incite, inspire, inspirit, jazz, jolly, kittle, liven, liven up, nerve, pep, propel, rally, rouse, smarten, spirit, stimulate, uphold, vitalize, vivify, warm). (various references)

Romanian

se filtra (filtrate, percolate, strain), filtra cafea. (various references)

Russian 

воспрянуть духом, оживлять (animate, brighten, enliven, exhilarate, illumine, jazz up, liven, perk up, quicken, raise from the dead, reanimate, resuscitate, revitalize, souped, souping, vitalize, vivify), задирать нос, поднимать голову. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

motka (bar, lath, perch, pole, sprit, staff, stave, stick), kočoperiti se (peacock), štrčati (jut, jut out, stick out). (various references)

Spanish

gaje (emoluments, fee, Gage, gauge), beneficios adicionales. (various references)

Swedish

piffa upp (furbish up, titivate), uppträda snorkigt, sticka upp (tower), sätta upp (draft, draw, instal, install, pin, pitch, put up, set up, stage), sätta sprätt på (juice up), sätta näsan i vädret, höja (advance, appreciate, boost, enhance, improve, inflate, jack up, lift, raise, uplift, work up). (various references)

Turkish

tip (bakhshish, baksheesh, bugger, cast, codger, cuss, customer, cut, guy, ilk, job, Johnny, norm, number, perquisite, person, pourboire, sort, specimen, style, tip, type, vintage), neşelenmek (be happy, bear up, brighten up, buck up, cheer up, kick up one's heels, liven, liven up, perk up, quicken, rejoice), maaştan hariç kazanılan para (perquisite), kendine gelmek (be oneself again, collect oneself, come to, come to life, come to one's senses, gather oneself together, perk up, pull round, recover, recover oneself, regain consciousness), kaldırmak (abolish, arouse, blank out, blue pencil, boost, Brook, cancel, carry, clear, clear away, deration, do away with, elevate, erect, get up, give smb. a lift, heave, heft, hoist, hold, hold up, Jack, jack up, lift, lift up, move away, perk up, pick off, pick up, poise, pull up, put aside, put away, put by, put up, quash, raise, reap, rear, receive, remove, scoop up, setaside, take off, take up, turn up, upheave, uphold, upraise), ikramiye (bonus, bounty, gratification, gratuity, perquisite, plum, premium, prize, sweepstake), ek ödeme (excess cost, extra pay, gratification, perquisite, supplementary payment), dikmek (bed, bed out, construct, crop, engraft, erect, fix, ingraft, lay down, needle, perk up, plant, post, prick, prick up, put stitches in, raise, rear, rest, rest on, rivet, seam, seam together, seam up, set, set out, set up, sew, sew up, sow, stitch up, suture, tailor, Upend), canlanmak (bestir oneself, brighten, brighten up, buck up, come to life, firm, freshen, kick up one's heels, kindle, liven, liven up, perk oneself, perk oneself up, perk up, quicken, refresh, revive, rouse, rouse oneself, rouse up, stir, wake, wake up), başını dikmek (perk up). (various references)

Ukrainian

самовпевнений (arrogant, assertive, assuming, assumptive, assured, bold, bumptious, calm, chesty, cocksure, cocksy, confident, coxy, nervy, nose-wise, opinionated, opinioned, overconfident, overweening, positive, presuming, reliant, self confident, self sufficient, self-assertive, self-assured, self-opinionated, upstart), кавник зі ситечком, задирати, булькотіти (simmer), приробіток (perquisite), причепурюватися (prink oneself up, smarten, titivate), пожвавитися (liven). (various references)

pertica. (various references)

perquer. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "perk": perked, perkier, perkiest, perkily, perkiness, perkinesses, perking, perkish, perks, perky. (additional references)

Words ending with "perk": reperk. (additional references)

Words containing "perk": hyperkeratoses, hyperkeratosis, hyperkeratotic, hyperkineses, hyperkinesia, hyperkinesias, hyperkinesis, hyperkinetic, reperked, reperking, reperks, schipperke, schipperkes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Perk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apark, berk, Epsrc, erk, gerk, kerk, pak, peark, pebr, peeik, peik, pek, pelk, Penk, Perak, perb, perc, Perco, perd, perf, perg, perh, perik, Perkpc, perl, Pern, pero, perp, perq, perr, Perro, Peruke, perv, perw, Petko, Petrik, pirk, preak, preb, Prec, prej, Prek, preke, Preki, prel, prev, prex, prk, purk, purko, pyrk, serk, verk, zerk. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: kep, per, rep.

-2 letters: er, pe, re.

+1 letter: kreep, perks, perky, piker, poker.

+2 letters: keeper, kipper, kreeps, packer, parked, parker, pecker, perked, peruke, picker, pikers, pinker, pokers, pokier, porker, pucker, punker, repack, repark, reperk, spiker.

+3 letters: barkeep, breakup, garpike, keepers, kippers, knapper, kouprey, packers, parkers, partake, pawkier, peakier, peckers, peckier, perkier, perkily, perking, perkish, peruked, perukes, peskier, pickeer, pickers, pickier, pinkers, plinker, plucker, plunker, pockier, porkers, porkier, porkies, porkpie, pranked, prebake, prebook, precook, predusk, prepack, prerock, presoak, prework, pricked, pricker, pricket, prickle, prinked, prinker, provoke, puckers, puckery, punkers, punkier, rampike, ranpike, repacks, reparks, reperks, respeak, respoke, skipper, spanker, sparked, sparker, sparkle, speaker, spikers, spikier.