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Perjink means (Scotland) Meticulously neat and precise; prim or finicky..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(Scotland) Meticulously neat and precise; prim or finicky..
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;[…].
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.
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.
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Perjink means (Scotland) Meticulously neat and precise; prim or finicky..
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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;[…].
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