different between pert vs peart

English

Etymology

Aphetic form of apert.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /p?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Adjective

pert (comparative perter, superlative pertest)

1. (of a person) Attractive.
2. (of a part of the body) Well-formed, shapely. [from 14th c.]

3. Lively; alert and cheerful; bright. [from 16th c.]
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 1, Scene 1:

     "Go Philostrate, Stirre vp the Athenian youth to merriments, Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth"

   • 2001, Donald Spoto, Marilyn Monroe: The Biography, chapter 1, 11:

     He was instantly attracted to Gladys's pert, fey humor and her good nature.

4. (now rare, especially of children or social inferiors) Cheeky, impertinent. [from 15th c.]
   • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 333:

     "You'll not be so pert when the Cornish seize you. They spit children like you and roast them on bonfires."

5. (obsolete) Open; evident; unhidden; apert. [14th-17th c.]

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Piers Plowman to this entry?)

6. (obsolete) Clever.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:cheeky

Derived terms

• pertly
• pertness

Translations

Verb

pert (third-person singular simple present perts, present participle perting, simple past and past participle perted)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To behave with pertness.

Noun

pert (plural perts)

1. (obsolete) An impudent person.

Anagrams

• 'terp, -pter, pret., terp

Hungarian

Etymology

per +? -t

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?rt]
• Hyphenation: pert

Noun

pert

1. accusative singular of per

Ladin

Alternative forms

• part

Etymology

From Latin pars, partem.

Noun

pert f (plural pertes)

1. part

Related terms

• partir

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *peret, from Late Latin paraver?dus.

Noun

pert n

1. horse

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• p?ert
• p?ert

Descendants

• Dutch: paard, perd
  • Afrikaans: perd
    • ? Phuthi: ipere
    • ? Sotho: pere
  • ? English: prad
• Limburgish: paerd
• West Flemish: peird

Further reading

• “pert”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “pert”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?rt/

Adjective

pert (feminine singular pert, plural perton, equative perted, comparative pertach, superlative pertaf)

1. pretty, attractive
2. quaint

Mutation

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