pert - What does it mean?

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Attractive (of a person); well-formed, shapely (of a part of the body).

Lively; alert and cheerful; bright.

* 1594 , William Shakespeare, , Act 1, Scene 1:

"Go Philostrate, Stirre vp the Athenian youth to merriments, Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth"

* 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 333:

"You'll not be so pert when the Cornish seize you. They spit children like you and roast them on bonfires."

(obsolete) Open; evident; unhidden; apert.

(Piers Plowman)

* See also

* pertly * pertness

(en-verb)

(obsolete) To behave with pertness.

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