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Webster 1913 Edition
Pert
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
,Verb.
I.
To behave with pertness.
[Obs.]
Gauden.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pert
PERT
, a.1.
Lively; brisk; smart. Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth.
On the lawny sands and shelves,
Trip the pert fairies, and the dapper elves.
2.
Forward; saucy; bold; indecorously free. A lady bids me in a very pert manner mind my own affairs--