perk.
Perquisite.
Meaning & usage
Perquisite.
Free coffee is one of the perks of the job.
A bonus ability that a player character can acquire; a permanent power-up.
Where this word comes from
Clipping of perquisite.
To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker.
I’ll perk some coffee.
Of coffee: to be produced by heated water seeping (“percolating”) through coffee grounds.
The coffee is perking.
Where this word comes from
Clipping of percolate (verb) and percolator (noun).
A percolator, particularly of coffee.
Where this word comes from
Clipping of percolate (verb) and percolator (noun).
To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of.
To appear from below or behind something, emerge, pop up, poke out.
To exalt oneself; to bear oneself loftily.
Where this word comes from
Origin uncertain. Perhaps a metathesis of prick.
Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain.
Where this word comes from
Origin uncertain. Perhaps a metathesis of prick.
To peer; to look narrowly, sharply, or inquisitively.
To examine thoroughly.
Where this word comes from
The origin is uncertain. Perhaps a variant of peer + -k (frequentative ending).
To perch.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English perken, from Old Northern French perquer.
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