peart
peart adjective: lively; active.
Adjective
peart (comparative pearter, superlative peartest)
- Lively; active.
- 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.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
- 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.1856, Alice Carey, Married, not Mated; Or, How they lived at Woodside and Throckmorton Hall, page 109
Proper noun capitalized: Peart
Peart (plural Pearts)
- A surname.
peart meaning in Tamil
peart in Tamil
- குதூகலமான
Examples of peart in a sentence
- "[…]No young man could 'a' ben more peart and alive than that, Dotty."1893, Lynde Palmer, A Question of Honour, page 88:
- Baby looks a little more peart this mornin' too."1979, Marguerite Noble, Filaree: A Novel of an American Life, published 1985, page 109:
Forms of peart
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | pearter |
| superlative | peartest |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Pearts |
Origin of peart
Related to peert.
Words formed from peart
Questions about peart
- What does peart mean?
- Peart means lively; active.
- What is peart in Tamil?
- Peart in Tamil is குதூகலமான. See Peart meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use peart in a sentence?
- "[…]No young man could 'a' ben more peart and alive than that, Dotty."
- What part of speech is peart?
- Peart can be an adjective or a proper noun.
Words near peart in the dictionary
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