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pearter

pearter is the comparative form of peart.

Meaning of peart

Adjective

peart (comparative pearter, superlative peartest)

  1. (UK, US, dialectal) 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

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Questions about pearter

What is pearter the comparative form of?
Pearter is the comparative form of peart.

Words near pearter in the dictionary

  1. Pearsondale
  2. Pearsonian
  3. Pearsonville
  4. pearst
  5. peart
  6. pearter
  7. peartest
  8. peartini
  9. peartinis
  10. peartly
  11. peartree

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