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peartest

peartest is the superlative 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 peartest

What is peartest the superlative form of?
Peartest is the superlative form of peart.

Words near peartest in the dictionary

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

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