Pert

Definition: Pert

Pert

Adjective

1. Characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality; "a certain irreverent gaiety and ease of manner".

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Date "pert" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Note: Pert \Pert\, intransitive verb. To behave with pertness. [Obsolete]. (references)

Computing

Census

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PERT

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Synonyms: Pert

Discourtesy

Uncivil, ungracious, unceremonious; cool; pert, forward, obtrusive, impudent, rude, saucy, precocious.

Insolence

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

Vanity

Adjective: vain, proud as a peacock; conceited, overweening, pert, forward; vainglorious, high-flown; ostentatious; puffed up, inflated, flushed.

Crosswords: Pert

Turkmen (firm), Welsh (pert, pretty, quaint).

I love those white flared trousers and the feel of rough blue serge on those pert little buttocks-- (Monty Python's Flying Circus; writing credit: Douglas Adams; Graham Chapman)

She's pert. If you like pert (Let It Ride; writing credit: Nancy Dowd)

Neal Pert couldn't drum his way out of a paper bag (Freaks and Geeks; writing credit: Paul Feig; Judd Apatow)

What? That's Neal Pert, he's the greatest drummer alive (Freaks and Geeks; writing credit: Paul Feig; Judd Apatow)

She was deliciously pert, wasn't she (Men Behaving Badly; writing credit: Simon Nye)

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Books

• Schedule, cost, and profit control with PERT; a comprehensive guide for program management (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Gasoline Alley. "A juicy bit, Nina. Wilmer's Uncle Pert has fallen for his hospital nurse!". Credit: Library of Congress.

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And her caro sposo, and her resources, and all her airs of pert pretension and underbred finery

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Beginning with "pert": pert-haran.

Albanian

i parespektueshëm (profane), i pafytyrë (barefaced, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, perky), i pacipë (arrogant, audacious, barefaced, brassy, brazen, brazen faced, bumptious, cheeky, contumelious, coxy, immodest, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, perky, saucy, shameless, unblushing), i gjallë (above ground, alive, animate, animated, breathing, brisk, buckish, buoyant, busy, canty, colorful, colourful, crude, dapper, dashing, dynamic, elastic, erect, fresh, frisky, glowing, graphic, graphical, green, humming, intense, jocund, keen, larky, live, lively, living, mercurial, nimble, noisy, perky, picturesque, playful, poignant, quick, raw, red blooded, saucy, skittish, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, spry, uncooked, vital, vivacious, vivid). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مفعم بالحيوية و النشاط, ‏وقح (abrasive, barefaced, blatant, bold, brazen, cool, flippant, hardy, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, off hand, overbold, presuming, presumptuous, rascal, rude, sassy, saucy, scamp, shameless, smart). (various references)

Bulgarian 

устат (hardmouthed), шик (chic, classy, dressy, pansy, posh, rakish, saucy, snazzy, swell, swish), оперен (cocky, fledged, opera, operatic, plumose), жив (above ground, active, agile, alert, alive, animate, breezy, brisk, cheerful, dashing, high-colored, high-coloured, jaunty, jazz, jazzy, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, mobile, nervous, nimble, organic, peppy, perky, picturesque, pregnant, quick, racy, rattling, round, saucy, sharp, skittish, snappy, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, swinging, vital, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, whippy, zappy, zippy), игрив (blithe, coltish, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, jocose, kittenish, mischievous, monkeyish, playful, skittish, sportful, sportive, tricksy, wanton). (various references)

Chinese 

计�'评审技术. (various references)

Czech

troufalý (bold, daredevil, daring, forward, fresh, presumptuous), smìlý (audacious, bold, daring, spunky, stouthearted), drzý (audacious, barefaced, bold, brash, brazen, bumptious, cheeky, chesty, cool, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, saucy, smart, unbridled). (various references)

Danish

PERT-metode (PERT method, program evaluation and review technique method, programme evaluation and review technique method). (various references)

Dutch

PERT-methode (PERT method, program evaluation and review technique method, programme evaluation and review technique method). (various references)

Farsi 

پررو (Barefaced, Brassy, Cheeky, Fresh, Immodest, Impudent, Nervy, Presuming), ماهر (Adept, Adroit, Cunning, Deft, Dexterous, Dextrous, Expert, Great, Handy, Industrious, Jimmy, Natty, Proficient, Skillful, Slick, Understanding, Workmanlike), قشنگ (Beauteous, Beautiful, Cheesy, Pretty, Spruce, Sprucy), گستاخ (Arrogant, Barefaced, Bold, Boldface, Brash, Cheeky, Forward, Immodest, Impertinent, Impudent, Indecent, Insolent, Jaunty, Perky, Presumptuous, Rude, Unabashed, Unshaped(En), Wanton), غنچه دار, سالم وباروح , سرحال (Cheery, Game, Jink, Peppy, Trig, Vascular, Wholesome), جسور (Adventurer, Bold, Boldface, Cocky, Defiant, Forward, Fresh, Hardy, Immodest, Insolent, Presuming, Presumptuous, Rude, Wanton), بی پرده (Blunt, Frank, Straight, Straightforward). (various references)

Finnish

nenäkäs (impertinent, saucy). (various references)

French

hardi, coquin. (various references)

German

keck (bold, cheeky, perkily, perky, pertly, saucy). (various references)

Greek 

αυθάδησ (arrogant, audacious, brash, brazen, flippant, forward, impertinent, insolent, jackanapes, presumer, presumptuous, sassy, saucy), αυθάδης (brash), θρασύσ (audacious, bold, cheeky, daring, impudent, nervy, presumptuous), θρασύς (cheeky, insolent). (various references)

Hebrew 

ער� י (alert, aware, sprightly, vigilant, wakeful, watchful, wide awake), חצוף (bold, brassy, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, rude). (various references)

Hungarian

hetyke (assured of the future, brash, cavalier, cocksy, jaunty, perky, rakish), szemtelen (arrogant, audacious, be insolent, brash, brassy, brazen, cheeky, contemptuous, immodest, impertinent, impudent, insolent, leer, malapert, naughty, perky, presumptuous, sassy, saucy, shameless, unblushing). (various references)

Italian

insolente (brash, brazen, cheekily, cheeky, defiant, forward, impertinent, insolent, puppyish, rude, sassy, saucily), impertinente (brazen, flippant, impertinent, naughty, perky, rude, saucy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

小面憎い (cheeky, saucy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"づらにくい (cheeky, saucy). (various references)

Manx

glib (fluent, garrulous, glib), brunt (impertinence), beeataigagh (ill-natured, jadish), assagagh (ferretlike, saucy, stoatlike). (various references)

Pig Latin

ertpay.(various references)

Portuguese

petulante (flip, hoity-toity, huffish, hussy, malapert, perk, petulant, sassy, waspish), vivo (above-ground, active, acute, adroit, agile, alert, alive, argute, bobbish, bouncing, brainy, breezy, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, clear-sighted, clinking, coltish, cork, corky, crisp, dapper, diagram, fervent, frisky, gaudy, gay, graphic, graphical, hasty, hurry, intense, juicy, keen, kittenish, knowing, light, lightsome, live, lively, living, luminous, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, nimble, nippy, parky, perky, picturesque, poignant, quick, racy, rattling, resilient, shrewd, smart, spanking, speaking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, subtil, subtile, subtle, swift, swift-handed, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, watchful, zippy), mexido (stirring), insolente (arrogant, cockish, contemptuous, contumelious, flip, huffy, immodest, impertinent, insolent, lingerer, lord-like, malapert, rough, rude, saucy, thrasonical, uppity), descarado (barefaced, brass, brazen, cheeky, cool, impudent, nervy, quean, saucy, shameless, unabashed, unblushing), atrevido (audacious, boastful, bold, cheeky, daring, gay, impertinent, insolent, malapert, presumptuous, pushing, saucy, uppity, wanton, waspish). (various references)

Romanian

pitoresc (gay, graphic, graphical, picturesque, picturesquely, picturesqueness, scenic, spectacular), obraznic (audacious, bad, barefaced, bold, boldly, brazenly, cheekily, cheeky, cocky, contemptuous, cool, disobedient, flippant, forward, fresh, graceless, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nasty, naughty, nervy, obtrusive, perky, pertly, presumptuous, provocative, rebellious, sauce box, saucy, unruly, untoward, uppish), nostim (amusing, attractive, droll, funny, good), nerespectuos (disrespectful). (various references)

Russian 

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

Scottish

cuideil (conceited). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

drzak (audacious, be insolent, brash, brazenfaced, cheeky, daring, flip, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, overbold, presuming, presumptuous, saucy, temerarious, venturesome), bezobrazan (bold, brazenfaced, contumelious, insolent, malapert, nervy, saucy), žustar (agile, brisk, dashing, glowing, hot, lively, smart, snappy, spry, spunky), živahan (abuzz, active, cheery, effervescent, live, mercurial, merry, perky, spirited, sprightly, vivacious). (various references)

Spanish

muy vivaracho, insolente (impertinent, impolite, impudent, insolent, rude, snippy, upstart), impertinente (cheeky, flippant, impertinent, uncalled for), atrevido (audacious, bold, daredevil, daring, foppish, forward, impudent, insolent, naughty, presumptuous, venturesome), animado (alive, animate, animated, buoyed up, busy, cheerful, chipper, Chirk, chirpy, ebullient, enlivens, freshens, jazzy, lively, sprightly, upbeat, zippy), alegre (airy, blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, canty, cheerful, cheery, chipper, Chirk, chirpy, chuffed, contentious, convivial, debonair, felicitous, gamesome, gay, glad, happy, high-spirited, holiday, jaunty, jocose, jolly, joyful, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, playful, pleased, rollicking, sportful, sporty, swinging, upbeat, zappy). (various references)

Swedish

näsvis (flippant, forward, impertinent, impudent, saucy), näbbig (cheeky). (various references)

Turkish

şuh (seductive), şımarık (perky, sassy, saucy, spoilt, wayward), arsız (bare faced, barefaced, bold, bold-faced, brassy, calm, cheeky, daft, flip, flippant, fresh, hard bitten, Hardy, impudent, malapert, perky, Randy, sassy, shameless, unabashed, unblushing, vigorous). (various references)

Ukrainian

спритний (adroit, agile, alert, arch, artful, canny, cunning, deft, dexterous, dodgy, fly, handy, light fingered, light-handed, natty, nifty, nimble, nimble footed, nimble-fingered, politic, practical, shuffling, slick, tactical, whipping, wide awake, zippy), розв'язний (calm, gossamer, nervy, soluble, solvable), квітучий (blooming, blowing, efflorescent, flourishing, flowered, flowering, full blown, thrifty, well to do, wholesome), зухвалий (aggressive, audacious, barefaced, bold, bold-faced, brazen faced, cheeky, cocksy, cocky, coxy, daring, flip, immodest, impertinent, insolent, necky, overbearing, perky, provocative, provocatory, pushing, rousing, saucy, wise). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xấc xược (flippant, forward, forwardly, pertly, sassy, snottiness), sỗ s� ng (indecent, pertly). (various references)

Welsh

pert (pretty, quaint). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "pert": pertain, pertained, pertaining, pertains, perter, pertest, pertinacious, pertinaciously, pertinaciousness, pertinaciousnesses, pertinacities, pertinacity, pertinence, pertinences, pertinencies, pertinency, pertinent, pertinently, pertly, pertness, pertnesses, perturb, perturbable, perturbation, perturbational, perturbations, perturbed, perturbing, perturbs, pertussis, pertussises. (additional references)

Words ending with "pert": expert, inexpert, malapert, nonexpert, overpert, unexpert. (additional references)

Words containing "pert": antihypertensive, antihypertensives, aperture, apertures, appertain, appertained, appertaining, appertains, champerties, champertous, champerty, experted, experting, expertise, expertises, expertism, expertisms, expertize, expertized, expertizes, expertizing, expertly, expertness, expertnesses, experts, hypertense, hypertension, hypertensions, hypertensive, hypertensives, hypertext, hypertexts, hyperthermia, hyperthermias, hyperthermic, hyperthyroid, hyperthyroidism, hyperthyroidisms, hypertonia, hypertonias, hypertonic, hypertonicities, hypertonicity, hypertrophic, hypertrophied, hypertrophies, hypertrophy, hypertrophying, hypertypical, impertinence, impertinences. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pert" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eprit, errt, ert, jert, Parlt, Partc, pebr, pect, peeet, peeret, peert, peet, peit, peot, perb, perc, perd, Peret, Peretz, perf, perg, perh, perit, periti, perl, Pern, pernt, pero, perp, perq, perr, perta, perte, perti, Pertl, perty, perv, perw, petra, petrit, Petru, petry, pett, peurto, pewt, peyt, Pirot, pirt, pitr, pitre, Pitru, pom, porth, portt, preat, preb, pref, preit, presh, Preto, prett, prev, prex, prext, prt, purt, purtt, pvert, pyrt, yert, zert. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: per, pet, rep, ret.

-2 letters: er, et, pe, re.

+1 letter: apter, crept, erupt, pater, peart, peter, prate, prest, repot, strep, taper, toper, tripe, trope, twerp.

+2 letters: arpent, carpet, copter, depart, deport, enrapt, entrap, erupts, esprit, expert, export, palter, parent, parget, parted, paster, paters, patter, patzer, pelter, peltry, permit, perter, pertly, pester, petard, peters, petrel, petrol, petter, pewter, pirate, pitier, plater, poetry, ported, porter, poster, pother, potter, potzer, pouter, powter, prated, prater, prates, preact, precut, preset, presto, prests, pretax, pretor, pretty, priest, privet, projet, protea, protei, pterin, punter, purest, putter, pyrite, recept, redipt, redtop, repast, repeat, repent, replot, report, repots, repute, respot, retape, retype, ripest, roupet, sprent, sprite, stoper, streps, stripe, tamper, tapers, tapper, temper, tephra, teraph, thorpe, threap, threep, tipper, topers, topper, trapes, trepan, trepid, tripes, triple, trompe, tropes, troupe, twerps, typier, uprate, uptear, uptore.