| 单词 | pert |
| 释义 | pert (once / 2503 pages) adj This sassy little adjective pert is lively and bold, like your pert best friend who storms in and demands to borrow your favorite jacket. Although pert is found inside its synonym impertinent (rudely bold), pert can also mean stylish, like that pert fedora cocked at a jaunty angle. Someone healthy and bright-eyed is pert, too. You might be pert after a strong cup of coffee and a pep talk, or after a visit from the celebrity stylist. Although pert has been around since the 1300s — from Middle English, “unconcealed, bold” — it is also the name of a shampoo that embraces all shades of meaning of this four-letter word. WORD FAMILYpert: perter, pertest, pertly, pertness+/pertness: pertnesses USAGE EXAMPLESThe chefs, dressed in white double-breasted jackets and pert caps, tread lightly, never clatter their implements, and speak to each other in soft, accented English. The Guardian(Jun 23, 2016) They show her with wide eyes and a pert mouth, devilish and innocent at once. New York Times(May 12, 2016) Gary Pert, chief executive of Australian rules football side Collingwood, was also on the flight and said Hackett appeared to be "affected by alcohol". BBC(Apr 18, 2016) adj characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality Syn impertinent, irreverent, saucy spirited displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness |
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