Meaning & use
Peart
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Lively, brisk, or in good spirits, especially after illness; chiefly used in dialectal or regional speech.
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Grandma's feeling right peart today, up and about before breakfast.
He looked peart despite the long journey, ready to keep going.
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A dialectal variant of 'pert,' still heard in some rural Southern and Appalachian American English.
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