"cheeky chappie" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: cheeky chappies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} cheeky chappie (plural cheeky chappies)
  1. (colloquial) A cheeky, likeable man or boy. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-cheeky_chappie-en-noun-ZN1z9ebl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "One reply given to the foregoing question was that \"men do not go to church because they do not want to, and, in spite of Mr. Wade, this is still a partly free country.\" After firing this little squib off, the perpetrator of it must have felt relieved. He is the cheerful, cheeky chappie whom Evangelist Alexander would have fired at with his own dum-dum bullet, '\"Two-Timothy-two-fifteen.\"",
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