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peart
adj 1name 1
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3ADJ.
alive, little
PREP.
than
ADV.
maybe
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adj
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Lively; active.
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.
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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, There was a tricksie girle, I wot, // Albeit clad in
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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.
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"[…]No young man could 'a' ben more peart and alive than that, Dotty."
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