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Webster 1913 Edition
malapert
mal′a-pert
(măl′ȧ-pẽrt)
, Adj.
[OF.
malapert
unskillful, ill-taught, ill-bred; mal
ill + apert
open, adroit, intelligent, L. apertus
, p. p. of aperire
to open. See Malice
, and Aperient
.] Bold; forward; impudent; saucy; pert.
Shak.
– Noun.
A malapert person.
Are you growing
– malapert
! Will you force me to make use of my authority
? Dryden.
Mal′a-pertˊly
, adv.
mal′a-pertˊness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Malapert
MAL'APERT
,Adj.
Are you growing malapert?
Definition 2024
malapert
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English
Noun
malapert (plural malaperts)
- (now archaic) An impudent or saucy person. [from 15th c.]
Adjective
malapert (comparative more malapert, superlative most malapert)
- (now archaic) Impudent, cheeky, saucy. [from 15th c.]
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.32:
- I finde him somewhat malapert and bolde in that passage of his Methode of Historie, when he accuseth Plutarke […].
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.32: