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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pert \Pert\, adjective [An aphetic form of OE. & OF. apert open, known, true, free, or impudent. See {Apert}.]
1. Open; evident; apert. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
2. Lively; brisk; sprightly; smart. [Obs.] --Shak.
3. Indecorously free, or presuming; saucy; bold; impertinent. ''A very pert manner.'' --Addison.
The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play. --Cowper.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pert \Pert\, verb (used without an object) To behave with pertness. [Obs.] --Gauden.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pert
adjective: characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality; "a certain irreverent gaiety and ease of manner" [syn: {impertinent}, {irreverent}, {saucy}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
114 Moby Thesaurus words for "pert": active, activist, activistic, aggressively self-confident, alert, alive, animate, animated, arch, arrogant, audacious, bantam, biggety, bluff, bold, bouncing, bouncy, brash, brassy, brazen, breezy, bright, brisk, bubbly, bumptious, challenging, cheeky, cheerful, chesty, chipper, chirk, chirpy, chirrupy, chutzpadik, cocky, conceited, contemptuous, crusty, daring, defiant, defying, derisive, disdainful, disregardful, disrespectful, ebullient, effervescent, energetic, enthusiastic, facy, flip, flippant, forward, fresh, frisky, full of go, full of life, full of pep, gally, gay, gratuitous, greatly daring, ill-mannered, immodest, impertinent, impolite, impudent, insolent, jaunty, jolly, keen, know-it-all, live, lively, malapert, mercurial, militant, nervy, nimble, obtrusive, out of line, overwise, peacockish, peacocky, peart, peppy, perk, perky, presumptuous, puffed up, quicksilver, regardless of consequences, rude, sassy, saucy, self-conceited, self-opinionated, smacking, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, snappy, spanking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stuck-up, swelled-headed, uncalled-for, uncivil, unmannerly, vivacious, wise-ass, zingy
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
PERT {Program Evaluation and Review Technique}
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
PERT Program Evaluation / Evolution and Review Technique
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