КНИГИ НА АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫКЕ, ИМЕЮЩЕЕ ОТНОШЕНИЕ К СЛОВУ «PERJINKETY»
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perjinkety в следующих библиографических источниках. Книги, относящиеся к слову
perjinkety, и краткие выдержки из этих книг для получения представления о контексте использования этого слова в литературе на английский языке.
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The Roxburghshire Word-Book
Td. "A simple machine for grinding pepper” (Jam). [From E. peppercorn dried
berry of black pepper] 1PEPPOCH, sb. Rxb. “The store of cherry-stones from
which the castles of peps are supplied” (Jam); = FEEDow. PERJINKETY, a. NE.
Finical ...
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Roget's Descriptive Word Finder
... perjinkety perqueer: accurate personal: pertaining to a particular person
pilpulistic: hairsplitting private: not common or general proper: specially adapted
respective: having relation to a particular person or thing several: considered
distinctly ...
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Patrick White's The Eye of the Storm, Voss, and Other Novels
3. pat 4. prim, smug, snod, tidy, trig, trim 5. natty 6. adroit, dapper, spruce 7.
orderly, perjink, precise 9. shipshape 10. meticulous, perjinkety 12. spick-and-
span neatherd ... 7. cowherd 8. herdsman noathmost ... 6. lowest neb ... 3. tip 4.
beak, bill, ...
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
PERJINKETY, my. Cor.I [padgi'nkotl] Apt to take oftence. PERK, sb., a. and my. In
gm. dial. use in Se. Yks. Lau. Chs. and midl. counties. Also e.An. Sus. l.'\V. \\'il.
Som. Also in forms pake Nrf.; peak \v.Yks.5; peark n.S'ks. w.Yks. Lei.' se.\Vor.l Nrf.
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The Lost Art of Profanity
Also, scrawk; scrouge; thrutch; goggle; fiz gig; cappernicious; crumpsy; frabby;
glumpy (if a man's glumpy, let him glump); muggety; perjinkety; snippety; and
brabagious. Children who point their epithets by putting a pronoun after as well
as ...
Of someone who is apt to take offence he will say He is perjinkety. Of a difficulty
one doesn't know how to overcome, It's a dog-drawn plough. Of someone who is
particularly untrusting, He doesn't let anyone sell him wooden nutmegs.
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Oor Wee School Wis A Rare Wee School!: Classroom Capers from ...
The teachers, formidable, perjinkety, stern or kindly, together with their
nicknames, live on with us. Many had that special requirement of all good
teachers –the knack of makinganysubject interesting.Andwho could forget
thejannie ringing ...
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The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
... upon the expounding doctor in the pulpit, they would, during the services, be
often torn by pangs as to whether Aunt Judy would know when to take that cake
out of the oven, or whether she might not get “ perjinkety," and over-spice the
soup.
Mickey could accomplish good deeds while under intense pressure, an attitude
that exemplified Disney, who was also perjinkety (minutely accurate with prim
and proper details). It was Mickey's moments of supernatural heroism that made
him ...
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 "prim:
finical." A more emphatic adjective is perjinkety; and it has the noun perjinkity, ...
