Yerked vs Perked - What's the difference?
yerked | perked |
(yerk)
(archaic) to stab.
*circa 1603, :
To throw or thrust with a sudden, smart movement; to kick or strike suddenly; to jerk.
* Drayton
* Shakespeare
(obsolete, Scotland) To strike or lash with a whip.
(perk)
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 verbs the difference between yerked and perked
is that yerked is (yerk) while perked is (perk).yerked
English
Verb
(head)yerk
English
Verb
(en verb)- I lack iniquity / Sometimes to do me service: nine or ten times / I had thought to have yerk’d him here, under the ribs.
- They flirt, they yerk , they backward fling.
- Their wounded steeds / Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters.
perked
English
Verb
(head)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)
