subs. (vulgar).—Perquisites.
1887. Fun, 30 March, 138. The PERKS, etc., attached to this useful office are not what they were in the ‘good old times.’
1889. Pall Mall Gazette, 27 Sept., 2, 2. How incorrigible the City Corporation is, to be sure, in a matter of its PERKS.
1890. H. D. TRAILL, Saturday Songs, ‘A Manly Protest’, 68. The position aint ’igh, and the PERKS isn’t weighty.
1897. The Sporting Times, 13 March, 1, 2.
| She’s of value in a thousand ways, she never looks for PERKS, | |
| Even when she takes a holiday she stops at home and works. |
TO PERK UP, verb. phr. (old colloquial).—1. To plume oneself; to adorn.
1691. SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII., ii. 3.
| I swear, ’tis better to be lowly born, | |
| And range with humble livers in content, | |
| Than to be PERK’D up in a glistering grief, | |
| And wear a golden sorrow. |
2. (colloquial).—To recover from sickness.—B. E. (c. 1696).
BOARD OF PERKS, subs. phr. (common).—Board of Works.
1889. Pall Mall Gazette, 27 Sept. Provincial BOARDS OF PERKS [Title].
