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pert
/pɝt/
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What does pert mean?
adjective
- Attractive.
- Well-formed; shapely.
- Lively; alert and cheerful; bright.
More meanings (6)
noun
- Acronym of program evaluation and review technique.
- (obsolete) An impudent person.
adjective
- (archaic) Especially of children or social inferiors: cheeky, impertinent.
- (obsolete) Open; evident; unhidden.
- (obsolete) Clever.
verb
- (obsolete) To behave with pertness; to misbehave.
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IPA pronunciation
/pɝt/
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See this word in context.
"I found her pert. There's no other word for it. She says things to puzzle you and put you out."
Kant says, somewhere, that the witty person is free and pert, the judicious person reflective, and unwilling to draw conclusions.
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I asked the pert, active, cockney housemaid what I ought to pay them, as, being a stranger, they might overcharge me.
Mrs. Mifflin and Titania had halted a few yards up the street, and were looking at some pert little bonnets in a window.
The Fairfaxes have fitted up a pert, bad apartment in the fore-part of the castle, and have left the only tolerable rooms for offices.