MALAPERT

Definition: MALAPERT

MALAPERT

Adjective

1. Bold; forward; impudent; saucy; pert.

Noun

1. A malapert person.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "MALAPERT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Etymology: Malapert \Mal"a*pert\, adjective. [Old French expression malapert unskillful, ill-taught, ill-bred; mal ill apert open, adroit, intelligent, from Latin expression apertus, past participle of aperire to open. See Malice, and Aperient.]. (references)

Blusterer

Puppy; (fop); prig; Sir Oracle, dogmatist, doctrinaire, jack-in-office; saucebox, malapert, jackanapes, minx;puppy; (fop); prig; Sir Oracle, dogmatist, doctrinaire, jack-in-office; saucebox, malapert, jackanapes, minx; bantam-cock.

Insolence

Flippant, pert, fresh, cavalier, saucy, forward, impertinent, malapert.

Crosswords: MALAPERT

Albanian

i paturpshëm (bold, forward, immodest, indecent, shameless, unseemly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

нахалник (jackanapes), нахален (arrogant, cheeky, contumelious, flip, forward, huffish, impudent, insolent, jumped-up, nervy, obtrusive, offensive, perky, presuming, sassy, saucy, snotty), дързък (arrogant, assuming, audacious, cheeky, contumelious, cool, daring, defiant, foolhardy, nervy, overbold, reckless, sassy, saucy, venturesome). (various references)

Hungarian

szemtelen (arrogant, audacious, be insolent, brash, brassy, brazen, cheeky, contemptuous, immodest, impertinent, impudent, insolent, leer, naughty, perky, pert, presumptuous, sassy, saucy, shameless, unblushing). (various references)

Pig Latin

alapertmay.(various references)

Portuguese

petulante (flip, hoity-toity, huffish, hussy, perk, pert, petulant, sassy, waspish), insolente (arrogant, cockish, contemptuous, contumelious, flip, huffy, immodest, impertinent, insolent, lingerer, lord-like, pert, rough, rude, saucy, thrasonical, uppity), atrevido (audacious, boastful, bold, cheeky, daring, gay, impertinent, insolent, pert, presumptuous, pushing, saucy, uppity, wanton, waspish). (various references)

Russian 

дерзкий (audacious, bold, brash, cheeky, cocky, contumelious, cool, daring, defiant, flippant, forward, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, perky, pert, petulant, presumptuous, reckless, sassy, saucy, tossy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nevaspitan (bad-mannered, churlish, cubbish, naughty, rude, unbred, uncivil, unmannerly), bezobrazan (bold, brazenfaced, contumelious, insolent, nervy, pert, saucy). (various references)

Turkish

küstah tip, küstah (arrogant, assuming, audacious, bold, bold-faced, brash, brassy, cheeky, chesty, cool, flip, flippant, fresh, ill mannered, impertinent, impudent, insolent, insulting, nervy, overbearing, presuming, presumptuous, stroppy, too familiar, unabashed, wise), arsız kimse, arsız (bare faced, barefaced, bold, bold-faced, brassy, calm, cheeky, daft, flip, flippant, fresh, hard bitten, Hardy, impudent, perky, pert, Randy, sassy, shameless, unabashed, unblushing, vigorous). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vô lễ (disrepectful, impolite, rude, uncivil, unpolite, untoward), sự vô lễ (disrepect, impoliteness, rudeness, unpoliteness). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "MALAPERT": malapertly, malapertness, malapertnesses, malaperts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"MALAPERT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Maclaverty, malabars, Malaret, malayer, Mallabar, Mallampati, mallaret, Malpiero. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: apteral, palmate, templar, trample.

-2 letters: ampler, armlet, earlap, malate, meatal, palate, palmar, palmer, palter, plater, ramate, tamale, tamper, tramel.

-3 letters: alarm, alate, alert, altar, alter, ample, apart, apter, areal, armet, artal, artel, lamer, later, leapt, lepta, malar, maple, mater, metal, palea, paler, palet, parae, parle, pater, pearl, peart, petal, plate, pleat, praam, prate.

+1 letter: atemporal, malaperts.

+2 letters: campestral, malapertly, metacarpal, parliament, platemaker, premarital, spermatial.

+3 letters: apartmental, malpractice, marketplace, metacarpals, parliaments, paternalism, perambulate, planetarium, platemakers.

+4 letters: departmental, ergastoplasm, imperatorial, laparotomies, malapertness, malpractices, marketplaces, metaphorical, paternalisms, perambulated, perambulates, perambulator, planetariums, premalignant, premaritally, protonematal, spermatozoal.

+5 letters: approximately, campylobacter, comparatively, compartmental, ergastoplasms, impracticable, metallography, parliamentary, paterfamilias, perambulating, perambulation, perambulators, perambulatory, permutational, problematical, temperamental, xerophthalmia.