Perky

Definition: Perky

Perky

Adjective

1. Characterized by liveliness and light-heartedness; "buoyant spirits"; "his quick wit and chirpy humor"; "looking bright and well and chirpy"; "a perky little widow in her 70s".

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

Date "perky" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references)

Synonyms: Perky

Crosswords: Perky

Oh, and they're so perky! (Sixteen Candles; writing credit: John Hughes.)

They're so perky, I love that (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman)

I came, I saw, I was perky. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

Pinky and Perky (1964)

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

Books

• Magic Book - Precious, Perky, Playful Puppies: An Educational Interactive Book (reference)

• Perky Little Engine (reference)

• Perky Otter (Let's Read Together) (reference)

• Perky Pal Apple Write-On Wipe-Off Message Board (Grades PreK-3) (reference)

• Perky Pelican: A Tale of a Lively Bird (Tate, Suzanne. Nature Series, No. 18.) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

Albanian

i pafytyrë (barefaced, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, pert), i pacipë (arrogant, audacious, barefaced, brassy, brazen, brazen faced, bumptious, cheeky, contumelious, coxy, immodest, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, pert, saucy, shameless, unblushing), i gjallë (above ground, alive, animate, animated, breathing, brisk, buckish, buoyant, busy, canty, colorful, colourful, crude, dapper, dashing, dynamic, elastic, erect, fresh, frisky, glowing, graphic, graphical, green, humming, intense, jocund, keen, larky, live, lively, living, mercurial, nimble, noisy, pert, picturesque, playful, poignant, quick, raw, red blooded, saucy, skittish, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, spry, uncooked, vital, vivacious, vivid), gazmor (cheerful, cheery, convivial, debonair, easygoing, exhilarated, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jollier, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lively, merry, mirthful, riant, set up, zippy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مرح (airiness, airy, be merry, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyancy, buoyant, cheerful, cheerfulness, cheering, chirpy, exult, facetious, festive, fresh, frisk, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, fun, gaiety, gay, glee, gleeful, have fun, hilarious, hilarity, jaunty, jocose, jocosity, jocund, jolly, jovial, joviality, joy, joyful, joyfulness, joyous, kittenish, lark, light, lightsome, lively, make merry, merriment, merry, merry making, mirth, mirthful, perkiness, playful, playfulness, playing, rejoice, rollick, romp, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, vivacity, what fun, winsome), ‏أنيق (bijou, chic, classy, coxcomb, dainty, dapper, dashing, dinky, dressy, elegant, exclusive, fine, gallant, genteel, good looking, gracious, jaunty, ladylike, mincing, natty, neat, nice, personable, posh, presentable, rich, saucy, seemly, sharp, smart, smug, sophisticated, spick and span, sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty, spruce, stylish, suave, swagger, swell, tailor made, taut, tidy, tight, trim, well groomed). (various references)

Bulgarian 

весел (airy, blithe, blithesome, boisterous, bright, buoyant, canty, cheery, chirp, chirpy, colorful, colourful, coltish, convivial, daft, debonair, exhilarated, festal, gamesome, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good humoured, good-humored, high, humorous, jaunty, jocular, jocund, joky, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, peppy, rackety, roistering, rollicking, rorty, rosy, saucy, slaphappy, sparkish, sportive, sporty, sprightly, swinging, upbeat, winsome), нахален (arrogant, cheeky, contumelious, flip, forward, huffish, impudent, insolent, jumped-up, malapert, nervy, obtrusive, offensive, presuming, sassy, saucy, snotty), наперен (flashy, jaunty, prancing, roistering, swanky), закачлив (chaffy, facetious, jesting, kittenish, larky, playful, pleasant, roguish, skittish, sly, troublesome, waggish), жив (above ground, active, agile, alert, alive, animate, breezy, brisk, cheerful, dashing, high-colored, high-coloured, jaunty, jazz, jazzy, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, mobile, nervous, nimble, organic, peppy, pert, picturesque, pregnant, quick, racy, rattling, round, saucy, sharp, skittish, snappy, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, swinging, vital, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, whippy, zappy, zippy), дяволит (impish, mischievous, pawky, puckish, scampish). (various references)

Czech

zpupný (overbearing, vainglorious), energický (assertive, brisk, decisive, decisively, energetic, enterprising, firm, forceful, forcefully, go ahead, high-powered, red blooded, strenuous, strong, vigorous, vital), domýšlivý (arrogant, assuming, conceited, haughty, high and mighty, pretentious, small beer, smug, snotty, uppish, upstage, vain), živý (active, airy, alive, animated, bright, brisk, chirpy, clear, exhilarating, gay, heated, high-spirited, lifelike, live, lively, living, mercurial, pleasant, quick, racy, sprightly, vivacious, vivid). (various references)

Farsi 

متکبر (Arrogant, Haughty, High, Imperious, Proud), چابک (Adroit, Agile, Brisk, Clever, Handy, Light, Lissome, Nimble, Quick, Rapid, Speedy, Spry, Swift), گستاخ (Arrogant, Barefaced, Bold, Boldface, Brash, Cheeky, Forward, Immodest, Impertinent, Impudent, Indecent, Insolent, Jaunty, Pert, Presumptuous, Rude, Unabashed, Unshaped(En), Wanton), خودنما (Airy, Blatant, Cocky, Jaunty, Ostentatious, Priggish, Showy), جسورانه . (various references)

Finnish

pirteä (agile, alert, lively, spirited), virkeä (animated, brisk, lively, spirited, spry, vigorous). (various references)

French

vif, gai, chic (personable), arrogant. (various references)

German

flott (brisk, briskly, dashing, glamorous, glamourous, jauntily, lively, nifty, nippy, punchy, quick, racy, saucy, slippy, smart, smartly, snazzily, snazzy, speedy, sporty, Spruce, sprucely, swift, swiftly, vigorous, zippy), dreist (audacious, bold, brash, brave, brazen, brazenly, cheekily, courageous, daring, forward, fresh, impudent, impudently, naughtily, naughty, perkily, presumptuous, unabashed, uppity, valiant). (various references)

Greek 

ζωηρόσ (bobbish, bouncing, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, cheery, chipper, crisp, dapper, dashing, frisky, gay, grig, jaunty, lightsome, live, lively, lurid, mercurial, peppy, poignant, quick, racy, rompish, smacking, smart, snappish, snappy, spanking, sparkish, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, vibrant, vivacious, vivid, volatile, zippy). (various references)

Hebrew 

שובב ועליז. (various references)

Hungarian

szeles (blowy, breezy, dirty, drafty, draughty, feather brain, featherbrain, flighty, giddy-pated, gusty, harum-scarum, rattlebrained, slap-dash, to lack ballast, windy), csintalan (mischievous, naughty, puckish, shrewd, wicked), huncut (elfin, elfish, impish, mischievous, rogue, roguish, waggish), hetyke (assured of the future, brash, cavalier, cocksy, jaunty, pert, rakish), elbizakodott (cock-sure, consequential, overweening, pretentious, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-confident, self-important, stuck-up, uppity), önhitt (bumptious, dandified young man, hubristic, presumptuous, priggish, proud, self sufficient, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-important, supercilious), élénk (active, adroit, agile, alert, alive, animated, astir, bobbish, breezy, brisk, busy, cant, canty, cheerful, chipper, chirpy, frisky, high colour, keen, live, lively, loud cheers, mercurial, nimble, nippy, picturesque, quick, racy of the soil, rattling, saucy bit, skittish, spruce, to be in high spirits, vigorous, vivacious, vivid, warm). (various references)

Italian

vivace (alive, animated, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, colorful, colourful, dashing, frisky, gay, jaunty, lively, quick, racy, skittish, spirited, sprightly, spry, vibrant, vigorous, vivacious, vivid), impertinente (brazen, flippant, impertinent, naughty, pert, rude, saucy), baldanzoso (bold, confident, uppity), allegro (allegro, blithe, blithesome, breezy, bright, buoyant, cheerful, cheery, frisky, frolicsome, gay, hilarious, jocular, jolly, jovial, joyful, laughing, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, sportive, sprightly, sunny, wanton). (various references)

Manx

bioal (animated, breezy, brisk, vivacious). (various references)

Pig Latin

erkypay.(various references)

Portuguese

vivo (above-ground, active, acute, adroit, agile, alert, alive, argute, bobbish, bouncing, brainy, breezy, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, clear-sighted, clinking, coltish, cork, corky, crisp, dapper, diagram, fervent, frisky, gaudy, gay, graphic, graphical, hasty, hurry, intense, juicy, keen, kittenish, knowing, light, lightsome, live, lively, living, luminous, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, nimble, nippy, parky, pert, picturesque, poignant, quick, racy, rattling, resilient, shrewd, smart, spanking, speaking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, subtil, subtile, subtle, swift, swift-handed, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, watchful, zippy), ousado (audacious, chanceful, confident, daring, hardy, high-spirited, intrepid, plucky, reckless, unabashed, venturesome), empertigado (prim, starchy), desenvolto (flippant, jaunty), altivo (arrogant, haughty, lofty, proud, proud-spirited, self-assertive, sniffy, snooty, stand-off, stand-offish, stuck-up, supercilious, uppish). (various references)

Romanian

plin de viaţã (high-spirited, jocund, live, lively, peppy, resilient), obraznic (audacious, bad, barefaced, bold, boldly, brazenly, cheekily, cheeky, cocky, contemptuous, cool, disobedient, flippant, forward, fresh, graceless, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nasty, naughty, nervy, obtrusive, pert, pertly, presumptuous, provocative, rebellious, sauce box, saucy, unruly, untoward, uppish), infatuat (cocky, conceited, inflated, perkily, pompous, prig, priggish), arogant (arrogant, arrogantly, assuming, assumptive, haughtily, haughty, high and mighty, lordly, overbearing, overbearingly, overweening, pretentious, supercilious), îngâmfat (arrogant, assuming, bloated, bumptious, cock-a-hoop, conceited, flaunty, fop, haughtily, inflated, presumptuous, self-conceited, self-pleasing, snooty, stuck up, supercilious, swollen, vainglorious). (various references)

Russian 

веселый (blithe, blithesome, breezy, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, convivial, corky, debonair, exhilarated, exhilarating, festive, frolic, gamesome, gay, gleeful, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasant, set up, sportful, sportive, sprightly), бойкий (glib, pert, saucy). (various references)

Scottish

giodaman (a perky fellow). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

veseo (blithe, blithesome, canty, cheerful, exuberant, festive, frolic, gay, happy, jocose, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lighthearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, rejoicing, rollicking), živahan (abuzz, active, cheery, effervescent, live, mercurial, merry, pert, spirited, sprightly, vivacious). (various references)

Spanish

gallardo (dashing, debonair, gallant, rakish), despabilado (awake, frisky, lively, wide awake), desenvuelto (cavalierly, informal, jaunty, rakish, unforced), descarado (barefaced, blatant, bold, bold-faced, bounder, brash, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, cheeky, forward, free, fresh, hussy, impertinent, impudent, nervy, overbold, sassy, saucy), alegre (airy, blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, canty, cheerful, cheery, chipper, Chirk, chirpy, chuffed, contentious, convivial, debonair, felicitous, gamesome, gay, glad, happy, high-spirited, holiday, jaunty, jocose, jolly, joyful, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, pert, playful, pleased, rollicking, sportful, sporty, swinging, upbeat, zappy). (various references)

Swedish

morsk (bold, brave, cock-a-hoop, Doughty, mettlesome), käck (bold, brave, dasher, dashing, gamy, jaunty, saucy), framfusig (bold, forward, pushing). (various references)

Turkish

neşeli (airy, animate, animated, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, bucked, buoyant, buoyed up, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, cock-a-hoop, debonair, debonaire, easygoing, eupeptic, exhilarated, fit as a fiddle, full of beans, gamesome, gay, genial, gleeful, high, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lively, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, rambunctious, rollicking, slaphappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, sunny, upbeat, vivacious), hoppa (flighty, flippant, flyaway, fop, frivolous, gay, giddy, hoity toity, skittish, trifling), canlı (active, alive, animate, animated, beany, breezy, bright, brightly, brisk, bustling, colorful, colourful, Corky, crisp, crispy, dashing, dewy, driving, exhilarated, expressive, exuberant, feeling, fresh, full of beans, full of life, gay, genially, ginger, gingery, glowing, go-go, graphic, graphical, hearty, humming, in the flesh, inspired, life, live, lively, living, living being, living creature, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, picturesque, quick, racy, rich, rousing, sappy, saturated, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, springy, swinging, vibrant, vital, vivacious, vivid, warm, with it, zippy), şımarık (pert, sassy, saucy, spoilt, wayward), arsız (bare faced, barefaced, bold, bold-faced, brassy, calm, cheeky, daft, flip, flippant, fresh, hard bitten, Hardy, impudent, malapert, pert, Randy, sassy, shameless, unabashed, unblushing, vigorous). (various references)

Ukrainian

веселий (airy, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, canty, cavalier, cheerful, cheery, chipper, chirpy, convivial, debonair, exhilarated, gay, happy go lucky, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful, pleasant, rackety, sportful, sunny), зухвалий (aggressive, audacious, barefaced, bold, bold-faced, brazen faced, cheeky, cocksy, cocky, coxy, daring, flip, immodest, impertinent, insolent, necky, overbearing, pert, provocative, provocatory, pushing, rousing, saucy, wise), жвавий (active, agile, airy, alert, alive, alive and kicking, animated, breezy, brisk, canty, chirpy, crisp, dashing, exhilarated, gleg, jaunty, live, living, mobile, nimble, peppy, slippy, sprightly, vivid, whisky, youthful, zippy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vênh váo; xấc xược, tự đắc (consequential, proud-hearted, proud-spirited, pround-stomached, vainly), ngạo mạn (assumptive, cellophane, haughty, hubris, lordly). (various references)

Misspellings

"Perky" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: brekky, ercy, Erkki, pecky, peeky, Pelkey, penki, penrhys, perc, Percie, perik, perkey, perly, Perroy, perty, peru, Pery, peryy, Petkim, porci, porkie, Prek, preke, Preki, Preky, prk, purko, pyrk. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: perk, prey, pyre, ryke, yerk.

-2 letters: kep, key, per, pry, pye, rep, rye, yep.

-3 letters: er, pe, re, ye.

+2 letters: kouprey, perkily, puckery.

+3 letters: koupreys, spookery.

+4 letters: cyberpunk, hyperlink, karyotype, perikarya, playmaker, pokeberry.

+5 letters: cyberpunks, hyperlinks, karyotyped, karyotypes, keypuncher, perikaryal, perikaryon, pernickety, playmakers, prokaryote, skyscraper.