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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pert
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a pert answer
▪ Katie is a pert outgoing young woman.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A wren scrabbled in leaf litter a few yards away: tiny, rufous-brown, pert tailed.
▪ All these fishes are seemingly quite pert and inquisitive.
▪ Does that pert chit you were escorting home satisfy you, Neil?
▪ Known in her youth as Conie, she was pert, voluble, intellectually vibrant, adventuresome.
▪ Lady Maude, small and pert, was cheerful as a little sparrow, welcoming Benedicta like a long lost sister.
▪ She wore pert green velvet slippers and a lovely sea green robe.
▪ So, why the pert questions?
▪ What they wanted was a pert nose, blue eyes, strawberry hair, and height.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pert

Pert \Pert\, a. [An aphetic form of OE. & OF. apert open, known, true, free, or impudent. See Apert.]

  1. Open; evident; apert. [Obs.]
    --Piers Plowman.

  2. Lively; brisk; sprightly; smart. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

  3. Indecorously free, or presuming; saucy; bold; impertinent. ``A very pert manner.''
    --Addison.

    The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play.
    --Cowper.

Pert

Pert \Pert\, v. i. To behave with pertness. [Obs.]
--Gauden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pert

c.1300 (implied in pertly), "evident, unconcealed," shortened form of Middle English apert "open, frank," from Old French apert, from Latin apertus, past participle of aperire "to open" (see overt). Sense of "saucy, bold" first recorded late 14c. Less pejorative meaning "lively, brisk, in good spirits" (c.1500) survives in U.S. dialectal peart (with Middle English alternative spelling). Related: Pertness.

Wiktionary
pert

  1. 1 attractive (of a person); well-formed, shapely (of a part of the body). (from 14th c.) 2 lively; alert and cheerful; bright. (from 16th c.) 3 (context now rare English) cheeky, impertinent (especially of children or social inferiors). (from 15th c.) 4 (context obsolete English) open; evident; unhidden; apert. (14th-17th c.) v

  2. (context intransitive obsolete English) To behave with pertness.

WordNet
pert

adj. characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality; "a certain irreverent gaiety and ease of manner" [syn: impertinent, irreverent, saucy]

Wikipedia
Pert

Pert or PERT may refer to:

Pert (surname)

Pert is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Brian Pert (born 1936), Australian rules footballer
  • Candace Pert (1946-2013), American neuroscientist and pharmacologist
  • Claude Ernest Pert (1898–1982), British Indian Army major general and British India polo champion
  • Gary Pert (born 1965), Australian rules footballer
  • Geoffrey James Pert - see List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1995
  • Morris Pert (1947-2010), Scottish composer
  • Nicholas Pert (born 1981), English chess player
  • Sid Pert (1890-1966), a pioneer Australian rugby league player of the 1900s and 1910s
  • Sid Pert, Jr. (born 1933), Australian rugby league player, son of the above
  • Thomas Spert (died 1541), sometimes spelled Pert, English vice admiral in service to King Henry VIII

Usage examples of "pert".

The driver of the horseless carriage lifted wide goggles and removed a full hat covered with veiling to reveal shining, dark hair and a pert nose between sparkling, blue eyes.

For too long she had kept him from feeling the afternoon sun on his pert, monkeyish face.

Her pert mouth, so adept at the childhood pouting he remembered well, contorted into a twisted grimace of hatred.

Her poor rump was already smarting all over, each pert cheek obviously well fingermarked from underswell to lower back.

I have not reason to curse the undutiful obstinacy of that pert baggage, and renounce her for ever as an alien to my blood.

The rebellious tone was belied by a sheen of unshed tears in the over-large brown eyes and a tiny defiant sniff accompanied the swift movement of a grimy, ragged forearm wiping a pert nose.

By now, as you can guess, my own rod was in a ferocious state of readiness, and I would as soon apply one as the other because the voluptuous nakedness of this dashingly handsome pert little minx whetted all my carnal appetites.

Patty Leadbitter--a pretty harum-scarum little creature, who sang pert songs from Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance, and played practical jokes upon any one who would allow her the chance--was given two blackboys, a gin to scrub, and three of her adorers, and commissioned to decorate the new kitchen and prepare the floor for dancing.

Watching the models hastily dress and undress had been exhilarating: those voluptuous bosoms squeezing into tight bustiers, the pert bottoms wriggling within the confines of satin and leather.

She was of course sexily human, except for her pert snout and hooflike feet.

Instead, Kaska went about seducing his captive, sipping delicately at her small, pert breasts until my own much larger ones ached.

I indicated her breasts, where there were also nubs standing pert and pink.

Hal recognized the prettiest and pertest of the two as the girl who had been the live throne of the Monomatapa.

Dalila was pert, if stocky, and short, barely above Annas shoulder, and very pregnant.

A pert hat scarcely concealed the bright blondness of the girl’s hair.