different between peat vs peart

English

Etymology 1

Late Middle English, from British Vulgar Latin peta, probably ultimately from a Celtic language such as an unattested Pictish or Brythonic source, in turn possibly from Proto-Brythonic *pe? (“portion, segment, piece”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /pi?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t
• Homophone: Pete

Noun

peat (countable and uncountable, plural peats)

1. Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel. [from 14th c.]

Derived terms

• peat bog, peatbog
• peaty

Translations

Further reading

• peat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Compare pet (“a favourite”).

Noun

peat (plural peats)

1. (obsolete) A pet, a darling; a woman.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, I. i. 78 :

     And let it not displease thee, good Bianca, / For I will love thee ne'er the less, my girl. / A pretty peat!

References

• Kuhn, Sherman (1982): Middle English Dictionary, Part 3, p. 880

Anagrams

• PETA, Paet, Pate, Peta, epta-, pate, peta-, pâté, tape, tepa

English

Etymology

Related to peert.

Adjective

peart (comparative more peart, superlative most peart)

1. (Britain, US, in dialects) 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.

   • 1856, Alice Carey, Married, not Mated; Or, How they lived at Woodside and Throckmorton Hall, page 109,

     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.

   • 1893, Lynde Palmer, A Question of Honour, page 88,

     " […] No young man could 'a' ben more peart and alive than that, Dotty."

   • 1979, Marguerite Noble, Filaree: A Novel of an American Life, 1985, page 109,

     "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."

Derived terms

• peartly

Anagrams

• Petra, apert, apter, parte, pater, petar, petra, prate, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, trape, treap