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  1. adjective Trim and stylish in appearance; jaunty: a pert hat.
  2. adjective High-spirited; vivacious.
  3. adjective Impudently bold; saucy.

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  • FOOTNOTES Footnote 14: Peart or peert is only another form of the old word pert —probably an older form. —  The Hoosier Schoolmaster
  • She was a pert, attractive blonde with summer blue eyes and a stylish curly perm. —  BloodBrothers
  • Her breasts were pert, her nipples pebble-hard and the patch of hair between her thighs the same moonbeam color as the hair flowing around her body. —  Cheyenne McCray - Spellbound.pdf.htm
  • The anchor-woman had a pert, almost elfin face, with sleek dark brown hair that swept back from her forehead and ears, its ends curling under just above her shoulders. —  Muller, Marcia - [11] Trophies and Dead Things.htm
  • A television game show resembles a silicone breast - idealised, pert, and transparently fake.
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saucy ·  impertinent ·  pretty ·  insolent ·  vivacious ·  cute ·  presumptuous ·  good-looking ·  plump ·  perky ·  naughty ·  shapely

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pert:   Pert
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English, unconcealed, bold, short for apert, obvious, frank (probably influenced by Old French aspert, espert, clever), from Old French, from Latin apertus, open, past participle of aperīre, to open; see wer-4 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from pert, a.; a variant of perk, v.
  2. By apheresis from apert, q.v.
  3. Middle English perte; from pert, a.
 

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