perjink

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His dress was singularly perjink, cut trim and tight from a blue cloth, the collar of a red shirt rolled over on the bosom, a pair of simple gold rings pierced the ears.

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  1. Trim; exact; precise; prim. [Scotch.] Hendy had left home glumly, declaring that the white collar Jess had put on him would throttle him; but her feikieness ended in his surrender, and he was looking unusually perjink. J. M. Barrie, Window in Thrums, xiv.

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