Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
An impudent person.
adj
Attractive. · Well-formed; shapely. · Lively; alert and cheerful; bright. · Especially of children or social inferiors: cheeky, impertinent.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo behave with pertness; to misbehave.
From Middle English pert, perte, aphetic form of apert.
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- Inherited-form mentionpertenm
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