perjink

“Thankfully, this looks it's difficult to tell from the translation to be the sort of law that some eedjit MP or another brings up as Private Members' Bills in the UK all the time, prohibiting their personal bugbears like spitting in the street, using the word "perjink" or playing volleyball with kittens or the like.”

Korean National Assembly to Outlaw RMT

“Mungo again came in and removed the dishes silently, and looked curiously at him -- so much the foreigner in that place, so perjink in his attire, so incongruous in his lace with this solitary keep of the mountains.”

Doom Castle

“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.”

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure

“Mr. Spencer came out to the front of the Inns, smoking a segar, very perjink with a brocade waistcoat and a collar so high it rasped his ears.”

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure

“He bore his arm out of his sleeve in a sling, and his hair was un-trim, and for once a most fastidious nobleman was anything but perjink.”

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn

“And so much of the dandy too!" put in M'Iver, himself perjink enough about his apparel.”

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn

“Hendry 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.”

A Window in Thrums

“Recently in Chambers I came across the adjective perjink, a Scots word given also in Collins, but not in any of the other desk dictionaries I use: it means”

Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1

“I am inclined to prefer perjink and its derivatives.”

Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1