Adjective: peart
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | pearter |
| Superlative | peartest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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1586, William Warner, Albion's England, Booke VI, Chapter XXXI, 1810, The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume IV, page 579,
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There was a tricksie girle, I wot, // Albeit clad in gray, / As peart as bird, as straite as boult, // As fresh as flower in May.
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I smiled; and she went on to say I looked a little more peart; maybe I would not be such a slow coach after all. [1856, Alice Carey, Married, not Mated; Or, How they lived at Woodside and Throckmorton Hall, page 109:]
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"[…]No young man could 'a' ben more peart and alive than that, Dotty." [1893, Lynde Palmer, A Question of Honour, page 88:]
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"Yore pa don't hold to card playin' but you needs to have quiet and rest. I'm pleased to see Annie's up to playin'. Baby looks a little more peart this mornin' too." [1979, Marguerite Noble, Filaree: A Novel of an American Life, published 1985, page 109:]
Adjectives inflected like peart
sallow,
smooth,
slight,
sleigh,
sordid,
somber,
shweet,
shrill,
shrewd,
yellow,
yaller,
hard knock,
DRY,
Greek,
cut short,
unquiet,
unclean,
indiscreet,
chipper,
straicht, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Related to peert.