perjinkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

perjink (comparative more perjink, superlative most perjink)

1. (Scotland) Meticulously neat and precise; prim or finicky.
   • 1822, John Galt, Annals of the Parish; or, the Chronicles of Dalmailing, page 299,

     All my things were kept by her in a most perjink and excellent order, but they soon fell into an amazing confusion, for, as she often said to me, I had a turn for heedlessness; […] .

   • 1831, Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, Destiny; or, The Chief's Daughter, page 165,

     No, Glenroy, I have more sense than to think that Inch Orran would behave in such a way as that; but I don't like people being so perjink in paying back their entertainments.

   • 1889, J. M. Barrie, A Window in Thrums, 2008, page 108,

     Hendry had left home glumly, declaring that the white collar Jess had put on him would throttle him; but her feikieness ended in his surrender, and he was looking unusually perjink.

派生語

• perjinkety (emphatic)