cheeky
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- offensively bold
Adj
- Impudent; impertinent; impertinently bold, often in a way that is regarded as endearing or amusing.
- Tending to expose the cheeks of the buttocks.
- Poisonous (of animals such as snakes), dangerous, cunning, violent, potent.
- Indulged in.
Origin / Etymology
From cheek + -y.
Compary typologically barefaced, bald-faced; Italian sfacciato (< Latin ex- + faciēs); French effronté, Italian sfrontato (< Latin ex- + frons), Polish czelny (< czoło).
Synonyms
audacious, bold, bold as brass, bold-faced, brash, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, cheeky, chutzpadik, cocket, cute, dicacious, facey, familiar, flip, flippant, forward, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, irreverent, malapert, nervy, pert, petulant, sassy, saucy
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 18
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