英:[pɜ:tlɪ]
美:[pɜtlɪ]
英:[pɜ:tlɪ]
美:[pɜtlɪ]
adjective
saucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured
being trim and chic : jaunty
a pert little hat
piquantly stimulating
is a pert notion
lively, vivacious
Middle English, evident, attractive, saucy, short for apert evident, from Anglo-French, from Latin apertus open, from past participle of aperire to open
The first known use of pert was in the 14th century
petalnoun
one of the often brightly colored modified leaves that make up the corolla of a flower
pestholenoun
a place in which diseases are common
pesterverb
annoy, bother
pesterverb
annoy, bother
Pesachnoun
passover
peruseverb
read entry 1 sense 1aespecially: to read carefully or thoroughly
perukenoun
a kind of wig popular in the 17th and 18th centuries
pertadjective
impudent
being trim and chic
vivacious, lively
pertadjective
impudent
being trim and chic
vivacious, lively
1 "I knew that, and I'm right glad to meet you," rejoined Pan pertly.
2 A nimble little chipmunk paused upon a stone wall, looked at them pertly, and disappeared in a crevice of rock.
3 Instead of showing any penitence, he pertly answered, "How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?"
4 Don’t Look Up in a pale blue Gucci suit, standing alongside a beaming, pregnant Jennifer Lawrence, a clean-cut Leonardo Dicaprio, and a pert Meryl Streep.
5 The school's problems are pertly due to lack of funds.
学校所面临的困难部分是由于缺乏资金.
6 She very pertly told me, she came in her own chariot.
7 In this recipe, on the other hand, alliums are front and center, with leeks standing upright, pert and proud, and calling unapologetic attention to themselves.
8 "You might not hesitate, providing you could get me out of the carriage," replied Jim, pertly; "but I might have something to say if you should attempt any interference."
9 If The Odyssey had been the story of a glamour girl, Doris Lilly would be its pert heroine in a fur chubby endlessly stranded on a sleek banquette.
10 But, fearing that she has been guilty of an impertinence, she gently though still pertly excuses herself:— "But I beseech your grace, pardon me; I was born to speak all mirth, and no matter."
11 Miss McGuire swept him with a quick glance that took in his flannel shirt, corduroy breeches and rough boots, nodded pertly and turned away.
12 Ohlsson’s left hand alone exposed any number of passages glossed over by most interpretations, and the orchestra under Blomstedt was a pert, colorful, and utterly cohesive body.
13 Do not think because you have answered me pertly that you have answered me wisely, and do not imagine that although a man doth not wear a crown he hath no power.
14 "Well?" said she, pertly, as if interrogating his opinion of her—"well?"
15 I could hardly fear indeed to find at Stanley Grove what the newspapers pertly call Private Theatricals.
16 “It wouldn’t rest easy if I had the making of it,” spoke Sally pertly.
17 Well," pertly cried Roque, "I suffer for having spoken truth, and I glory in what I have done.
18 "Never you mind what I am going to do," answered Ruby, pertly, and just then Ann saw that her cookies were missing.
19 "It is none at all, if I read right your person," answered the boy pertly, mustering Otmar from top to toe.
20 "Well," she said pertly, "you would not have us all murdered in our beds?"