"perken" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From perk + -en.",
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        {
          "ref": "2001, Allan Gurganus, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, page 599",
          "text": "Us perkened so, staring at each other, not rightly knowing one the other—such a goodly percentage of familiar skin now been quenched back of hiding cloth.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2009, Mariella Glenn Hartsfield, Tall Betsy and Dunce Baby, page 72",
          "text": "She saw him and kind of perkened up [perked up] her gait a little bit.",
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          "ref": "2011, Lynn Coady, Mean Boy",
          "text": "But Lawrence,” he adds, perkening, “I hope you were planning to take my Elizabethan poets course next year?”",
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        "To make or become perked or perky."
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        "(transitive, intransitive, nonstandard) To make or become perked or perky."
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  "word": "perken"
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  "etymology_text": "From perk + -en.",
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          "ref": "2001, Allan Gurganus, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, page 599",
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          "type": "quotation"
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