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Pelter vs Perter - What's the difference?

pelter | perter |

As a noun pelter

is one who pelts.

As an adjective perter is

(pert).

pelter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who pelts.
  • * 2008 , Outlook (volume 48, number 35, page 20)
    • Young stone-pelters took to the streets and faced armed police who fired straight at them, killing several.
  • A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint.

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    perter

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (pert)

    • pert

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Attractive (of a person); well-formed, shapely (of a part of the body).
  • Lively; alert and cheerful; bright.
  • * 1594 , William Shakespeare, , Act 1, Scene 1:
    • "Go Philostrate, Stirre vp the Athenian youth to merriments, Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth"
  • * 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 333:
    • "You'll not be so pert when the Cornish seize you. They spit children like you and roast them on bonfires."
  • (obsolete) Open; evident; unhidden; apert.
    • (Piers Plowman)

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * pertly * pertness

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To behave with pertness.

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