peart
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 5
Definition of peart
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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(UK, US, dialectal)Lively; active.
“1586, William Warner, Albion's England, Booke VI, Chapter XXXI, 1810, The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume IV, page 579, There was a tricksie girle, I wot, // Albeit clad in gray, / As peart as bird, as straite as boult, // As fresh as flower in May.”
“I smiled; and she went on to say I looked a little more peart; maybe I would not be such a slow coach after all.”
“"[…]No young man could 'a' ben more peart and alive than that, Dotty."”
“"Yore pa don't hold to card playin' but you needs to have quiet and rest. I'm pleased to see Annie's up to playin'. Baby looks a little more peart this mornin' too."”
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adj
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(UK, US, dialectal)Lively; active.
“1586, William Warner, Albion's England, Booke VI, Chapter XXXI, 1810, The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume IV, page 579, There was a tricksie girle, I wot, // Albeit clad in gray, / As peart as bird, as straite as boult, // As fresh as flower in May.”
“I smiled; and she went on to say I looked a little more peart; maybe I would not be such a slow coach after all.”
“"[…]No young man could 'a' ben more peart and alive than that, Dotty."”
“"Yore pa don't hold to card playin' but you needs to have quiet and rest. I'm pleased to see Annie's up to playin'. Baby looks a little more peart this mornin' too."”
name
- A surname.
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Etymology
Related to peert.
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