perjink

English

Alternative forms

• prejink

Adjective

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, published 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.

Derived terms

• perjinkety (emphatic)