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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)

 

Synonyms within Context: MALAPERT

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

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.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: MALAPERT

English words defined with "MALAPERT": Overmalapert. (references)
Etymologies containing "MALAPERT": Overmalapert. (references)

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Modern Translation: MALAPERT

Language Translations for "MALAPERT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: MALAPERT

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)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "MALAPERT"

Words rhyming with "MALAPERT" (pronounced 'Mal"a*pert'): inexpert, Overmalapert, Unexpert. (additional references)

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Anagrams: MALAPERT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-l-m-p-r-t"

-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.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-l-m-p-r-t"
 

+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.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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