pert
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Is pert a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (of a person) Attractive.
2. (of a part of the body) Well-formed; shapely.Examples: "pert breasts"
3. (archaic) Especially of children or social inferiors: cheeky, impertinent.Examples: "Says Mrs. Jervis, Pamela, don’t be pert to his Honour? You ſhould know your Diſtance; you ſee his Honour was only in Jeſt."; "[T]he Major began to think that Pen was growing exceedingly pert and conceited, and that the world made a great deal too much of him."; "[…]so that I couldn't help telling her, sir, that in our country, leastways in Virginia (they say the Yankees are very pert), young people don't speak of their elders so."Synonyms: audacious, bold, get wise, bold-faced, bold as brass, brassy, brazen, brazen-facedarchaic
4. (obsolete) Open; evident; unhidden.Examples: "Some parled as perte · as prouyd well after, / And clappid more ffor þe coyne · þat þe kyng oweth hem / Thanne ffor comfforte of þe comyne […]"obsolete
5. (obsolete) Clever.obsolete
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, obsolete) To behave with pertness; to misbehave.intransitiveobsolete
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) An impudent person.obsolete
noun (English)
1. (operations) Acronym of program evaluation and review technique.abbreviationacronymalt-ofuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary