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adjective

Pert adj.

Open; evident; apert. (Obs.)

Lively; brisk; sprightly; smart. (Obs.)

Indecorously free, or presuming; saucy; bold; impertinent. "A very pert manner." "The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play."

verb

Pert v. i. To behave with pertness. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Pert'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pert" Quotes from Famous Books

... in blue being a light-haired, stiff-necked, free and easy sort of footman, with a swaggering air and pert face, had attracted Mr. Weller's special attention at first, but when he began to come out in this way, Sam felt more than ever disposed to cultivate his acquaintance; so he launched himself into the conversation at once, ...

— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens

... frequently to make us good as to make us wise, that our friends employ the officiousness of counsel; and among the rejectors of advice, who are mentioned by the grave and sententious with so much acrimony, you will not so often find the vicious and abandoned, as the pert and the petulant, the ...

— The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes - Volume IV: The Adventurer; The Idler • Samuel Johnson

... thoughtfully: "Unfortunately money won't buy happiness. I can't do very much for her—only give her what money can buy. But even the harmony of material environment means a great deal to Nan—the difference between a pert, indifferent maid and a civil and experienced one; flowers in your rooms; a taxi instead of a scramble for a motor-'bus. Just small things in such a big thing as life, but they make ...

— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler

... that while in the water the princess was very like other people. And besides this, she was not so forward in her questions or pert in her replies at sea as on shore. Neither did she laugh so much; and when she did laugh, it was more gently. She seemed altogether more modest and maidenly in the water than out of it. But when the prince, ...

— The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories • George MacDonald

... church, of course,—the Goldthwaites were always regular in this; and she wore her quiet straw bonnet. Mrs. Goldthwaite had a feeling that hats were rather pert and coquettish for the sanctuary. Nevertheless they met the Haddens in the porch, in the glory of their purple pheasant plumes, whereof the long tail-feathers made great circles in the air as the young heads turned this ...

— A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

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