perky

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perky - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Perky \Perk"y\, a.
     Perk; pert; jaunty; trim.
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           There amid perky larches and pines.      --Tennyson.
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perky - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  perky
      adj 1: characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness;
             "buoyant spirits"; "his quick wit and chirpy humor";
             "looking bright and well and chirpy"; "a perky little
             widow in her 70s" [syn: buoyant, chirpy, perky]

perky - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  71 Moby Thesaurus words for "perky":
     active, activist, activistic, aggressively self-confident, airy,
     alive, animated, biggety, bouncing, bouncy, breezy, bright,
     bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, brisk, bubbly, bumptious, buoyant,
     carefree, cheerful, cheery, chesty, chipper, cocky, conceited,
     corky, debonair, ebullient, effervescent, energetic, free and easy,
     frisky, full of go, full of life, full of pep, gay, immodest,
     invigorated, jaunty, know-it-all, light, lighthearted, lightsome,
     live, lively, mercurial, militant, obtrusive, overwise, peacockish,
     peacocky, peppy, perk, pert, puffed up, quicksilver, resilient,
     self-conceited, self-opinionated, smacking, smart-alecky, snappy,
     spanking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stuck-up, swelled-headed,
     vigorous, vitalized, vivacious, zingy