perjink

/ pərˈdʒɪŋk /

adjective

1. prim or finicky

Word History and Origins

Origin of perjink¹

C19: of unknown origin

Example Sentences

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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