perking
English edit
Verb edit
perking
- present participle and gerund of perk
Noun edit
perking (plural perkings)
- The act of something being perked.
- 1912, Basil King, The Street Called Straight:
- When seated the Marquise accompanied her words with little jerkings and perkings of her fluffy head, with wavings of the hands and rollings of the eyes — the corelatives of her dartings and dashings while on her feet.