Definition of Malapert

1. a. Bold; forward; impudent; saucy; pert.

Definition of Malapert

1. Noun. (context: now archaic) An impudent or saucy person. (defdate from 15th c.) ¹

2. Adjective. (context: now archaic) Impudent, cheeky, saucy. (defdate from 15th c.) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Malapert

1. an impudent person [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Malapert

malamide
malamides
malamute
malamutes
malander
malanders
malandro
malandros
malanga
malangan
malangans
malangas
malanggan
malanggans
malanite
malapert (current term)
malapertly
malapertness
malapertnesses
malaperts
malaphor
malaphors
malapplied
malapportioned
malapportionment
malaprop
malapropian
malapropic
malapropism
malapropisms

Literary usage of Malapert

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1882)
"Lord malapert. Cicely. The Seneschal. Mariana. The Man in the Moon. Flick. ... LORD malapert: Boy of 14. Fancy court suit, over which he wears, at first, ..."

2. On the Study of Words: Lectures Addressed (originally) to the Pupils at the by Richard Chenevix Trench (1866)
"Others, as ' deft,' ' debonair,' ' malapert,' reach down, at least in literary use, to the middle of the eighteenth century; with, in the case of the last, ..."

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