perking

To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker.

“I’ll perk some coffee.”

Of coffee: to be produced by heated water seeping (“percolating”) through coffee grounds.

“The coffee is perking.”

To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of.

To appear from below or behind something, emerge, pop up, poke out.

To exalt oneself; to bear oneself loftily.

To peer; to look inquisitively.

To perch.

The act of something being perked.