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  • noun A kind of weak perry.

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  • noun A kind of weak perry.

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  • noun A kind of weak perry.

Etymologies

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See -kin, and compare ciderkin.

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Examples

  • May 23, 2009 at 9:08 am lil nosy ears perkin up ober here on teh left coast!

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  • August 5, 2008 at 2:37 am yah-iz just in too. coffee perkin nao, an i can has two old fashioned donuts!

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  • The southern Scottish and Northumbrian perkin is a griddle-cooked variety of parkin now more usually tray baked in an oven, and elsewhere early recipes for parkin were similiarly cooked.

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • The southern Scottish and Northumbrian perkin is a griddle-cooked variety of parkin now more usually tray baked in an oven, and elsewhere early recipes for parkin were similiarly cooked.

    Parkin (or Perkin or Tharf cake) 2007

  • That poor li'l biosphere, they stack photons on top of each other somehow to get enough energy, then grab onto water near the ocean, split off the oxy, God what a lotta work Petrowski calcs that the biosphere's older than our solar system, really old, been perkin 'along over five billion years, think 'bout that, figured it from the heavy element abundance -

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  • "Why, to be sure," breaks in Mr. Robert, perkin 'up all of a sudden and starin' at me.

    The House of Torchy Sewell Ford 1907

  • I think that they had got him hella perkin 'out there.

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  • They was saying that some Canadian magazine was telling him to get hella perkin '.

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  • Ooh, yes -- mustn't forget how "scary" this administration is -- keep that paranoia perkin '!

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • Ooh, yes -- mustn't forget how "scary" this administration is -- keep that paranoia perkin '!

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  • A type of weak cider, spec. one obtained by adding water to apple pulp from which the juice has already been pressed and pressing it a second time. (See also ciderkin.)

    Usage: c1791 Encycl. Brit. s.v. Husbandry §238 "The liquor, called cyderkin, purre, or perkin, is made of the murk or gross matter remaining after the cyder is pressed out."

    February 16, 2007