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Definition of Perkiness
1. Noun. Cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface.
2. Noun. Inappropriate playfulness.
Generic synonyms: Fun, Playfulness
Derivative terms: Impertinent, Pert, Saucy
Definition of Perkiness
1. Noun. The condition of being perky ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Perkiness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perkiness
Literary usage of Perkiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1896)
"I noticed that he had aged a great deal in a very little time, and that his
cheerful perkiness had ceased to be a habit and was only assumed on occasion. ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"... a Pirr-like combination of power and perkiness. Till,к AT THE HANDS Of LADT
TOBT DIPLOMACY, ..."
3. Contemporary Portraits by Frank Harris (1920)
"There was a certain vigor or perkiness in his walk: his legs at least were strong,
and carried the little podgy body briskly. He usually wore a great felt ..."
4. The Masters of Modern French Criticism by Irving Babbitt (1912)
"If we are to avoid misunderstandings we need to inquire carefully into the nature
of this " perkiness," and point out why it is possible to cherish Emerson, ..."
5. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"and strode tempestuously from the room. Out in his own workshop, fortunately,
whatever the grotesque new pinkness, whatever the grotesque new perkiness, ..."
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