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Definition of 'peart'English
Adjective
( en-adj)
Lively; active.
* 1586', , ''Albion's England'', Booke VI, Chapter XXXI, '''1810 , ''The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper , Volume IV, page 579 ,
- There was a tricksie girle, I wot, // Albeit clad in gray, / As peart as bird, as straite as boult, // As fresh as flower in May.
* 1856 , Alice Carey, Married, not Mated; Or, How they lived at Woodside and Throckmorton Hall , page 109 ,
- I smiled; and she went on to say I looked a little more peart ; maybe I would not be such a slow coach after all.
* 1893 , Lynde Palmer, A Question of Honour , page 88 ,
- "No young man could 'a' ben more peart and alive than that, Dotty."
* 1979 , Marguerite Noble, Filaree: A Novel of an American Life , 1985, page 109 ,
- "Yore pa don't hold to card playin' but you needs to have quiet and rest. I'm pleased to see Annie's up to playin'. Baby looks a little more peart this mornin' too."
Similar to 'peart'port, parrot, pert, part, prat, perrot, periot, parrat, pratt, porret, peert, proot
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