Meaning of peart | Babel Free

Definitions

Lively; active.

UK, US, dialectal

Examples

“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, 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.”

“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.”

“"[…]No young man could 'a' ben more peart and alive than that, Dotty."”

“"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."”

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