Perk vs Stickup - What's the difference?
perk | stickup |
To become more lively or enthusiastic.
To exalt oneself; to bear oneself loftily.
* Barrow
To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of.
As nouns the difference between perk and stickup
is that perk is perquisite or perk can be a percolator, particularly of coffee while stickup is a robbery at gunpoint.As a verb perk
is shortened form of percolate or perk can be to become more lively or enthusiastic or perk can be (dated) to peer; to look inquisitively.As an adjective perk
is smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain.perk
English
Etymology 1
From perquisite, by abbreviation.Alternative forms
* (l) (less common)Etymology 2
From percolate (verb) and percolator (noun), by abbreviation.Etymology 3
The origin is .Verb
(en verb)- to perk over them
- to perk''' the ears; to '''perk up one's head
- (Cowper)
- (Sherburne)