Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Impertinently bold; impudent and saucy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Impudent; brazen-faced; presumptuous; self-confident: as, he is a cheeky little fellow.
Wiktionary
- adj. informal Impudent; impertinent.
GNU Webster's 1913
- Slang. a Brazen-faced; impudent; bold.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. offensively bold
Etymologies
- From cheek + -y. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He's been called -- i've heard the term cheeky used.”
“Nothing at all, captain, only that I have my eye on them; and I've been thinking that they must somehow or another have held communication outside; and I don't like it, for those people don't get what we call cheeky without cause.”
“A reformed professional librarian, she also owns several hamsters and has been known to engage in cheeky cross-stitching.”
“What struck some as shameful about the movie eight years ago, and might seem especially irresponsible now, if it weren't so cheeky, is that the threat of a nuclear holocaust is a McGuffin — a device to keep the characters running from place to place in what is really a bedroom farce.”
“I think the song's by someone called cheeky git, but its pretty funny talking about Wayne Rooney, Michael Owen and Frank Lampard.”
“I think the song's by someone called cheeky git, but its pretty funny talking about Wayne”
“The expression is also used when someone is being what I would call 'cheeky' - that is, being presumptuous or expecting too much, for instance:”
“It would have been very impertinent -- what English people would call 'cheeky' -- of me to do such”
“You've got to love his cockiness, especially when there's so little basis for it: In Case You Didn't Know is an unapologetically lightweight product by a chappie born to be labelled "cheeky", and that's about the size of it.”
“Secondly: an ever increasing indifference towards severe, noble and conscientious schooling in the service of art, and in its place the belief in genius, or in plain English, cheeky dilettantism (— the formula for this is to be found in the”
The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cheeky’.
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Sue's favorite words
panache, flair, pantaloons, periwinkle, pumpernickel, persnickety, cachet, coquette, élan, iris, ambrosia, keen and 99 more...
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UK - slang
chin wag, arse about, bollock, starkers, sweet Fanny Adams, skive, shufti, codswallop, rhyming slang, bollocks, nookie, skew-whiff and 208 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
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Hey Hey It's My Monkey!
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anatomopeia
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britishisms
A tip of my hat to the snarkiest of English dialects. Here here!
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The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
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What Do You Mean ?
U Gotta Know These.......
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The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
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BuffaloBen's Words
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lachrymose, blustering, fjord, chihuahua, chiffon, catalytic, stile, gefilte, prosh, thwart, ralph, ickle and 379 more...
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obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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facetious, bardic, twatwaffle, cattywampus, splendiferous, zomg, merf, fwaa, fnord, tortify, schwiz, blort and 225 more...
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rhii's words to remember and incorporate
Just whatever words I might happen across in my wanderings that I find myself compelled to write down so that I remember to try to use them. Not necessarily unusual words, but worthwhile ones.
redact, treatise, vitrify, cogitate, propensity, silphium, saccharine, minutiae, sluicing, dalliance, remonstrated, carnelian and 131 more...
Tweets
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sunana I love this word. cheeky monkey is pretty cool too. Dec 7, 2009
tolland It may be offensively bold, but it's supposed to be in an endearing way. I absolutely looove this word. Tell me I'm cheeky and my heart would melt. Jul 11, 2008