Lexicographical Neighbors of Perkish
Literary usage of Perkish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The amateur's magazine (1859)
"Mrs. Bumptious," called out Mr. Tim perkish, who also sat with us, ... Here's to
my own health, perkish. Just you keep to the wine your own side of the ..."
2. The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men ...by William Hone by William Hone (1841)
"... modern ann very ill assorted with its antique and lowly neighbours. It has an
impertinent perkish look, which disconcerts the eye. ..."
3. The Coming Terror and Other Essays and Letters by Robert Williams Buchanan (1891)
"... from a dissipated father, and a perkish young woman who takes her foibles from
a mother who ' went wrong.' As a realistic experiment this play is not ..."
4. The Hebrid Isles: Wanderings in the Land of Lorne and the Outer Hebrides by Robert Williams Buchanan (1883)
"There is a perkish, commonplace, pretentious air about that word, as applied to
beautiful mountains. ..."
5. With Walt Whitman in Camden by Horace Traubel (1914)
"Letter from Bucke. " He complains of the irregularity of my letters. They seem
to have a strange perkish way up at the post office. ..."
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