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perkily

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perk·y  (pûrk)
adj. perk·i·er, perk·i·est
1. Having a buoyant or self-confident air; briskly cheerful.
2. Jaunty; sprightly.

perki·ly adv.
perki·ness n.
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Adv.1.perkily - in a perky manner; "stuck perkily, like a bustle on a woman's skirt"
Translations
perkily
adv (= cheerfully)munter; (= cheekily)kess, keck
perkily [ˈpɜːkɪlɪ] adv (see adj) → con aria allegra, con tono allegro, vivacemente, con impertinenza


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Ross Collins came in to reinforce the back line Walsall were first to threaten through a Troy Deeney 20-yarder which Stuart Brock saved comfortably but Stourbridge started perkily.
This was the result of vicious flick-backs from my own granite-shelled conker - a veteran of many campaigns that, I fervently believed, should have shattered his more freshlypodded challenger, which now shines rather too perkily on the end of a string, nonchalantly looped to a peg over the trophy cabinet in his bedroom.
He'd answer "Ormonde", or "Captain Cuttle", depending on what year it was, obviously, and trot perkily off to contract cholera while you basked in the knowledge that the Derby was the subject of worldwide renown.
 
 
 
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