Cheeky

Definition: Cheeky

Cheeky

Adjective

1. Offensively bold; "a brash newcomer disputed the age-old rules for admission to the club"; "a nervy thing to say".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cheeky" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)

Synonyms: Cheeky

Crosswords: Cheeky

The Cheeky Little Angels (1974)

Cheeky (2003)

Rosie Red and Cheeky (1992)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Cheeky Chimps (Animal Allsorts) (reference)

• Cheeky Little Kitten (reference)

• Cheeky Rubs (reference)

• Max Miller : The Cheeky Chappie (reference)

• Smart Alec's Cheeky Jokes for Kids (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Vulcan: Fresh and Cheeky Young Guns (reference)

• The Cheeky Chap (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "cheeky": be cheeky to smb. ♦ cheeky brat ♦ cheeky devil ♦ cheeky monkey ♦ cheeky youngster ♦ get cheeky ♦ grow cheeky. Additional references.

Beginning with "cheeky": cheeky-chappy, cheeky-chopped, cheeky-looking.

Ending with "cheeky": not-half-cheeky.

Albanian

i paturp (conscienceless, impertinent, impudent, insolent, lubricious, saucy, shameless, unashamed, unblushing), i pacipë (arrogant, audacious, barefaced, brassy, brazen, brazen faced, bumptious, contumelious, coxy, immodest, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, perky, pert, saucy, shameless, unblushing). (various references)

Arabic 

‏صفيق (brazen, impudent, overbold, shameless), ‏الممنلئ الخدين. (various references)

Bulgarian 

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

Chinese 

厚脸皮 (insensitive). (various references)

Czech

hubatý (saucy), drzý (audacious, barefaced, bold, brash, brazen, bumptious, chesty, cool, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, pert, saucy, smart, unbridled). (various references)

Farsi 

پررو (Barefaced, Brassy, Fresh, Immodest, Impudent, Nervy, Pert, Presuming), گستاخ (Arrogant, Barefaced, Bold, Boldface, Brash, Forward, Immodest, Impertinent, Impudent, Indecent, Insolent, Jaunty, Perky, Pert, Presumptuous, Rude, Unabashed, Unshaped(En), Wanton), دارای گونه های برامده . (various references)

Finnish

röyhkeä (arrogant, impudent, insolent). (various references)

French

culotté, insolent, impertinent, effronté (cheekily). (various references)

German

freche (barefacedly, boldfaced, insolently), frech (barefaced, bold, brassy, brazen, cheekily, cocky, fresh, impertinent, impudent, impudently, insolent, insultingly, naughtily, naughty, nervy, perkily, ribald, rude, sassy, saucily, saucy, unblushingly, wicked). (various references)

Greek 

ξετσίπωτος (impudent, saucy, shameless), αναιδήσ (audacious, barefaced, brassy, cocky, fresh, immodest, impudence, impudent, saucy, squirt), αναιδής (insolent, saucy), θρασύσ (audacious, bold, daring, impudent, nervy, pert, presumptuous), θρασύς (insolent, pert). (various references)

Hungarian

szemtelen (arrogant, audacious, be insolent, brash, brassy, brazen, contemptuous, immodest, impertinent, impudent, insolent, leer, malapert, naughty, perky, pert, presumptuous, sassy, saucy, shameless, unblushing), pimasz (brash, brassy, brazen, cocky, forward, hubristic, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, sassy, saucy, saucy bit). (various references)

Italian

insolente (brash, brazen, cheekily, defiant, forward, impertinent, insolent, pert, puppyish, rude, sassy, saucily). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"�意気 (audacious, brazen, conceit, impertinent, saucy), 千枚張り (multilayered), �'落臭い (impertinent, impudent), 小面憎い (pert, saucy), 図太い (bold, shameless), � 捕 (a bit, be even, bicycle, calculating, capture, child pickpocket, efficient, forgive a debt, make a fuss of, making something last, mismatched, nervy, pamper, seizure, shrewd, spoil, suffix for familiarperson, tiny, very small, weight-chain-pole weapon). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ずぶとい (bold, shameless), なまいき (audacious, brazen, conceit, impertinent, saucy), しゃらくくさい (impertinent, impudent), しゃらくさい (impertinent, impudent), せ�"まいばり (multilayered), �"づらにくい (pert, saucy), ちゃっかり (calculating, nervy, shrewd). (various references)

Korean 

건방진. (various references)

Manx

mwannalagh (giraffe, imprudent, long-necked, necked), daaney (bold, cocky, confident, daring, presumptuous, rude). (various references)

Norwegian

frekk (brazen, impertinent, rude). (various references)

Pig Latin

eekychay.(various references)

Portuguese

descarado (barefaced, brass, brazen, cool, impudent, nervy, pert, quean, saucy, shameless, unabashed, unblushing), bochechudo (apple-cheeked, chubby, fubsy), atrevido (audacious, boastful, bold, daring, gay, impertinent, insolent, malapert, pert, presumptuous, pushing, saucy, uppity, wanton, waspish). (various references)

Romanian

obraznic (audacious, bad, barefaced, bold, boldly, brazenly, cheekily, cocky, contemptuous, cool, disobedient, flippant, forward, fresh, graceless, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nasty, naughty, nervy, obtrusive, perky, pert, pertly, presumptuous, provocative, rebellious, sauce box, saucy, unruly, untoward, uppish), neruşinat (barefaced, bold, brassy, brazen faced, frontless, graceless, impudent, indecent, nervy, outrageous, ribald, saucy, shameless, unscrupulous), neobrãzat (bold, brazen faced, immodestly, impudent, nervy, shameless), insolent (audacious, impertinent, impertinently, insolent), îndrãzneţ (assuming, audacious, bold, boldly, cocky, courageous, daring, fearless, gallant, high-spirited, intrepid, manful, nervy, overdaring, reckless, risky, venturesome). (various references)

Russian 

нахальный (bumptious, cocky, impertinent, impudent, pert, presumptuous, pushy, sassy, smart-alecky, snotty). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

drzak (audacious, be insolent, brash, brazenfaced, daring, flip, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, overbold, pert, presuming, presumptuous, saucy, temerarious, venturesome). (various references)

Spanish

descarado (barefaced, blatant, bold, bold-faced, bounder, brash, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, forward, free, fresh, hussy, impertinent, impudent, nervy, overbold, perky, sassy, saucy). (various references)

Swedish

uppnosig (impertinent), nosig (cocksy, cocky), näbbig (pert). (various references)

Turkish

yüzsüz (bare faced, barefaced, bold-faced, brash, brassy, brazenfaced, conscience-proof, fresh, gay, hard bitten, hard boiled, hard-nosed, Hardy, impudent, nervy, pushful, pushing, ribald, saucy, shameless, unabashed, unashamed, unblushing), küstah (arrogant, assuming, audacious, bold, bold-faced, brash, brassy, chesty, cool, flip, flippant, fresh, ill mannered, impertinent, impudent, insolent, insulting, malapert, nervy, overbearing, presuming, presumptuous, stroppy, too familiar, unabashed, wise), arsız (bare faced, barefaced, bold, bold-faced, brassy, calm, daft, flip, flippant, fresh, hard bitten, Hardy, impudent, malapert, perky, pert, Randy, sassy, shameless, unabashed, unblushing, vigorous). (various references)

Ukrainian

рохв'язний, нахабний (audacious, bold-faced, contumelious, coxy, impudent, necky), зухвалий (aggressive, audacious, barefaced, bold, bold-faced, brazen faced, cocksy, cocky, coxy, daring, flip, immodest, impertinent, insolent, necky, overbearing, perky, pert, provocative, provocatory, pushing, rousing, saucy, wise), безцеремонний (brusque, cavalier, offhand, offhanded, presumptuous, snippy, unceremonious). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cả gan (capable, temerarious), trơ tráo (bold, bold-faced, immodest, impudent), táo tợn, mặt dạn m� y d� y (audacious, barefaced, cool, impudent), không biết xấu hổ vô lễ, hỗn xược (brash, contumelious, impudent, saucy). (various references)

Welsh

egr (savage, severe, sharp, sour). (various references)

frech. (various references)

Misspellings

"Cheeky" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cesky, Cheech, cheecky, cheeken, cheekie, cheety, cheezy, cheik, cheiy, chek, cheny, cherepki, Chidekel, chiek, Chieke, Choleski, Chwasky, cleaky, Schetky, teeky. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cheek.

-2 letters: eche, heck, yech.

-3 letters: cee, eke, eye, hey, key, yeh.

-4 letters: eh, he, ye.

+2 letters: cheekily.

+3 letters: hackneyed.

+4 letters: cherrylike, chokeberry, keypunched, keypuncher, keypunches.

+5 letters: bodychecked, chimneylike, chokecherry, honeysuckle, huckleberry, keypunchers, unhackneyed.