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peat | peart |

As a proper noun peat

is .

As an adjective peart is

lively; active.

peat

English

Etymology 1

Origin unknown; perhaps a borrowing from an unattested Pictish or Brythonic source.

Noun

  • Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas.
    • Derived terms
    * peaty
    See also
    * (wikipedia)

    Etymology 2

    Compare .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A pet, a darling; a woman.
  • * 1594 , , I. i. 78 :
    • And let it not displease thee, good Bianca, / For I will love thee ne'er the less, my girl. / A pretty peat !

    Anagrams

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    peart

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lively; active.
  • * 1586', , ''Albion's England'', Booke VI, Chapter XXXI, '''1810 , ''The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper , Volume IV, page 579,
    • There was a tricksie girle, I wot, // Albeit clad in gray, / As peart as bird, as straite as boult, // As fresh as flower in May.
  • * 1856 , Alice Carey, Married, not Mated; Or, How they lived at Woodside and Throckmorton Hall , page 109,
    • I smiled; and she went on to say I looked a little more peart ; maybe I would not be such a slow coach after all.
  • * 1893 , Lynde Palmer, A Question of Honour , page 88,
    • "No young man could 'a' ben more peart and alive than that, Dotty."
  • * 1979 , Marguerite Noble, Filaree: A Novel of an American Life , 1985, page 109,
    • "Yore pa don't hold to card playin' but you needs to have quiet and rest. I'm pleased to see Annie's up to playin'. Baby looks a little more peart this mornin' too."