PERK • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Perk

... better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... found two of my old stories (Peter Goldthwaite and the Shaker Bridal) published as original in the last London Metropolitan! The English are much more unscrupulous and dishonest pirates than ourselves. However, if they are poor enough to perk themselves in such false feathers as these, Heaven help them! I glanced over the stories, and they seemed painfully cold and dull. It is the more singular that these should be so published, inasmuch as the whole book was republished ...

— Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 2. • Nathaniel Hawthorne