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Answer for the clue "Roughly peels second bit of orange skin (left over) for zest ", 9 letters:
perkiness

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The condition of being perky

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface [syn: buoyancy ] inappropriate playfulness [syn: impertinence , pertness , sauciness , archness ]

Usage examples of perkiness.

Sophisticated and ultraknowledgeable but with the perkiness of a college senior.

Her large eyes blinked twice and then she hugged herself and shrugged, smiling in his directiona series of gestures he readily interpreted as perkiness for its own sake.

She was all erotic innocence and innocent eroticism, moving by me, knowing I would turn to stare, that I would see the arrogance, the slow laziness, the luxurious challenge of the lazy scissors of the long weight of white thighs and the soft flexing perkiness of the little rump.

She was smallish, about five foot three, and had the perkiness of a cheerleader.

Clearing the dishes, she'd exhibited a perkiness that could have at its root only one explanation: She'd come to believe her precious Tommy wasn't dead.

The girls would grow positively swaybacked with perkiness, and Maggie knew it was they who didn't stand a chance.