10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERJINK»
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
Sc. Also written pirjink PERJINK._ mr'i. and sb. Sh.l.; and In forms perjinct (_I.\.\i.t;
pirjinct Per. 3. To destroy ; Nrf. ln phr. fer/wig maffing [pardgi'ng 1. adj. Exact,
precise, particular ; trim, neat; finical. Sec Prejink. Sc. I don't like pe0ple being 50
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Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish language: in which the ...
PREJINKITIE, 3. Minute nicety or accuracy, Ayrs. Sir A. Wylie. V. PERJINK. -1'o.
PREIS, v. n. This has been expl. to attempt; but it seems to claim a stronger sense
, to exert one's self strenuously»; originally the same with E. to press. 0. E. preese
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The Essential Scots Dictionary: Scots-English, English-Scots
... prog, job, dob. prickle n jag, job, prog, stab. v prinkle. prickly jaggie, jobbie,
stobbie. prickly feeling prickle. pride n: full of pride pridefu. prim adj perjink, mim (
as a Mey pud- dock), primsie; (in speech) mim- mou'd, tattie-peelin. primiy perjink
, ...
Iseabail Macleod, Pauline Cairns, 2004
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Scoor-oot: a dictionary of Scots words and phrases in ...
There was also a pech in northern Middle English. perjink referring to a person's
appearance suggests smartness or neatness, usually in dress. 'She's awfae (very
) perjink the day' suggests an unusual degree of care for one's appearance.
James A. C. Stevenson, Iseabail Macleod, 1989
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The Chambers Dictionary
Also pennywinkle. [OE (pi) pinen-inclan (or perh winewinclan), from H incle a
whelk] perjink pjr-jingk'. (Scot) adj prim; finical. - Also perjink ety. - n perjink Ky a
nicety [Origin unknown] perjure pur'jjr. vi to lie under oath to tell the truth, to
forswear ...
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Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers
37. Perjink. Bungalows,. et. cetera. The awkward state of domestic affairs in
Matthew's flat might have continued for some time had it not been for the
factthatheand Elspethonemorning happened to find themselves reading the ...
Alexander McCall Smith, 2013
Perjink. – means trim, neat, well turned out or smart in appearance. Itis
exemplified in W. D. Latto's Tammas Bodkin (1864), [She]mademe as clean an'
perjink as a new preen,and Neil Munro's Daft Days (1907), In his clothing he was.
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Annals of the Parish; or, the Chronicles of Dalmailing; ...
All my things were kept by her in a most perjink and excellent order, but they
soon fell into an amazing confusion, .for,'a's she often said to me, I had a turn for
heedlessness: insomuch, that although my daughter Janet was grown up, and
able ...
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Sir Andrew Wylie, of that ilk, by the author of 'Annals of ...
I'm thinking," replied Andrew, " that he's something in the perfoomery line, for he
had a fine scented pocket-napkin, and was wondrous perjink in his words — a'
on chandler pins ; and baith in shape and habit he was a slimmer piece of gen- ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERJINK»
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Football: Campaign to honour late Aberdeen coach Teddy Scott …
Yet that is exactly what has happened with Aberdeen's marvellous multi-tasking Teddy Scott: the sort of perjink fellow who lends lustre to local ... «The National, Jun 15»
Scotland's educational apartheid shames the nation
In interviews, pupils from poorer backgrounds can often be at a disadvantage compared with those who have been reared in acceptably perjink ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
Rita McGurn
... but the sculptures were soon deemed of sufficient quality to be sold in Copland and Lye, a perjink department store in Sauchiehall Street. «Herald Scotland, Apr 15»
Ailie Robertson: Little Lights (Lorimer)
Solo harp tracks including the slow air The Wild Geese and the perjink barndance Around The Fairy Port showcase Robertson's able, fluent ... «Herald Scotland, Feb 15»
Aidan Smith: Remembering Arthur Montford
Well, we quite liked Big Jock being terse, and Big Arthur being prim and precise and perjink and paternalistic. That was TV presenting, any kind ... «Scotsman, Nov 14»
Spiers on Sport: can Gordon Strachan and Scotland sustain progress?
So far this perjink little 57 year old has generated some Tartan Army optimism while being our national team manager. The only concern in ... «Herald Scotland, Nov 14»
After the Referendum
The suburbs had been different: we saw plenty of perjink signs saying 'No Thanks', stuck on privet hedges. My friends are Scots born, English ... «London Review of Books, Oct 14»
Aidan Smith: A warm and friendly Commonwealth Games
... the Scottish vocabulary used to mean perjink hotels in Peebles and Dunblane, but can now refer to the closest we have to an enormodome. «Scotsman, Aug 14»
Taylor Travels: Glasgow
The then Glasgow Herald was based in Albion Street and my memory is one of darkness, decay and drink which, coming from perjink ... «Herald Scotland, May 14»
Aidan Smith: Scotland seen off all too easily
... the New Town, of Ravelston Dykes and of perjink, pruned-and-mown East Lothian – his first-choice dead-certs for the Yes votes he'll require. «Scotsman, Feb 14»
