Perkin definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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I should wear a brown perkin--I mean jerkin Jack is going as Sir Walter Raleigh Then I shall certainly touch him for a cigarette," I said, as I got up to go It was a week later that I met Elizabeth in Regent Street Well," she said, "have you got your things I haven't," I confessed I forgot who you said you were going as Somebody who had black hair," I said.

—Happy Days

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A kind of weak perry.

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Ooh, yes -- mustn't forget how "scary" this administration is -- keep that paranoia perkin '! — Propeller Most Popular Stories
I should wear a brown perkin--I mean jerkin Jack is going as Sir Walter Raleigh Then I shall certainly touch him for a cigarette," I said, as I got up to go It was a week later that I met Elizabeth in Regent Street Well," she said, "have you got your things I haven't," I confessed I forgot who you said you were going as Somebody who had black hair," I said. — Happy Days
I should wear a brown perkin -- I mean jerkin. " — Happy Days
"Ah!" says Steele, perkin 'up consider'ble. — Shorty McCabe on the Job
"Why, to be sure," breaks in Mr. Robert, perkin 'up all of a sudden and starin' at me. — The House of Torchy