"perjink" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "more perjink",
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    },
    {
      "form": "most perjink",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "tags": [
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          "word": "perjinkety"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1822, John Galt, Annals of the Parish; or, the Chronicles of Dalmailing, page 299",
          "text": "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;[…].",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1831, Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, Destiny; or, The Chief's Daughter, page 165",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1889, J. M. Barrie, A Window in Thrums, published 2008, page 108",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Meticulously neat and precise; prim or finicky."
      ],
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          "neat",
          "neat"
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          "precise",
          "precise"
        ],
        [
          "prim",
          "prim"
        ],
        [
          "finicky",
          "finicky"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland) Meticulously neat and precise; prim or finicky."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "prejink"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
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    }
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  "word": "perjink"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "emphatic"
      ],
      "word": "perjinkety"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more perjink",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most perjink",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1822, John Galt, Annals of the Parish; or, the Chronicles of Dalmailing, page 299",
          "text": "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;[…].",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1831, Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, Destiny; or, The Chief's Daughter, page 165",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1889, J. M. Barrie, A Window in Thrums, published 2008, page 108",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Meticulously neat and precise; prim or finicky."
      ],
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          "precise",
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          "prim",
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        ],
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          "finicky",
          "finicky"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland) Meticulously neat and precise; prim or finicky."
      ],
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    {
      "word": "prejink"
    }
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  "word": "perjink"
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