perken

From perk +‎ -en.

perken (third-person singular simple present perkens, present participle perkening, simple past and past participle perkened)

1. (transitive, intransitive, nonstandard) To make or become perked or perky.
   • 2001, Allan Gurganus, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, page 599:

     Us perkened so, staring at each other, not rightly knowing one the other—such a goodly percentage of familiar skin now been quenched back of hiding cloth.

   • 2009, Mariella Glenn Hartsfield, Tall Betsy and Dunce Baby, page 72:

     She saw him and kind of perkened up [perked up] her gait a little bit.

   • 2011, Lynn Coady, Mean Boy:

     But Lawrence,” he adds, perkening, “I hope you were planning to take my Elizabethan poets course next year?”

• perk

• Kepner

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛr.kə(n)/
• Hyphenation: per‧ken
• Rhymes: -ɛrkən

From perk +‎ -en.

perken

1. (transitive) to enclose, to keep in check with fencing
2. (transitive) to close off with barriers

See the etymology of the main entry.

perken

1. Plural form of perk