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"ref": "1909, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 7, in The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England",
"text": "The Young Turks, as might have been expected, wrote in their customary flippant, cheeky style.",
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"(informal) Impudent; impertinent; impertinently bold, often in a way that is regarded as endearing or amusing."
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"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
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"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
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"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
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"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "fræk"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "brutaal"
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{
"_dis1": "97 1 1 1",
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"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
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{
"_dis1": "97 1 1 1",
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"word": "näsäviisas"
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{
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"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "effronté"
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"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "frech"
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"word": "ιταμός"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
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"_dis1": "97 1 1 1",
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"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "sfacciato"
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"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
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"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "whakatoi"
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{
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
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"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
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"_dis1": "97 1 1 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "ousado"
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{
"_dis1": "97 1 1 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "atrevido"
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"_dis1": "97 1 1 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "obraznic"
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"word": "nerușinat"
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"roman": "dérzkij",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "де́рзкий"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "naxálʹnyj",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "наха́льный"
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"word": "на́глый"
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"code": "gd",
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"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "bragail"
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"code": "sk",
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"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "huncútsky"
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"word": "drzý"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "burlón"
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"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
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"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "fräck"
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"ref": "1984, Hugh Lunn, Queenslanders, page 159",
"text": "Barry said he introduced the cheeky bikini to the Coast three years ago: \"I took a theatrical garment worn for as long as there have been strippers and showgirls — the G-string — and put it on the beach and gave it a name and we sold a heap.\"",
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"ref": "2002, Elle, volume 17",
"text": "Joyce Azria oversees a staff of twelve, manages a multimillion-dollar budget, and, in her first year as director of BCBG swimwear, designed cheeky bikinis and deep-V maillots that became top sellers at Bloomingdale's.",
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"ref": "1994, Victoria Katherine Burbank, Fighting Women: Anger and Aggression in Aboriginal Australia, Univ of California Press, page 57",
"text": "A death adder is cheeky, a tree snake quiet. Wasps are only cheeky if you hold them in your hand.",
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{
"ref": "1995, Richard Shine, Australian Snakes: A Natural History, Cornell University Press, page 176",
"text": "There is no doubt that many have been killed by large elapids, and that Aborigines treat such 'cheeky' snakes (and colubrids of similar appearance) with great respect.",
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"ref": "2009, Amy Huberman, Hello, Heartbreak, Penguin UK",
"text": "Although sometimes I'd award myself a cheeky McDonald's hangover treat if I did well.",
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{
"ref": "2010, Richard Herring, How Not to Grow Up: A Coming of Age Memoir. Sort of., Random House, page 285",
"text": "It was a massive struggle to resist the lure of a cheeky beer, but I held firm.",
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{
"ref": "2011, John Donoghue, Police, Crime & 999, Troubador Publishing Ltd, page 7",
"text": "It transpired that Mrs Egg had been cooking dinner when she discovered Mr Singlet making himself a sandwich. I don't know about you but it does seem a little bit naught after she's gone to all that effort. Naughty yes but hardly a crime and certainly not enough to warrant a 999 call. Yet that's what she had done. That's why we had left our own dinner, charged through rush hour traffic, disrupted commuters on their way home – all for a cheeky sandwich.",
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"ref": "2011, James Goss, Torchwood: First Born, Random House, page 20",
"text": "The great thing was it gave him a little bit of freedom and me the chance to sneak a cheeky nap.",
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"word": "polite"
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"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "restrained"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "sycophantic"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "shy"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "meek"
}
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"English adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival)",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"Rhymes:English/iːki",
"Rhymes:English/iːki/2 syllables",
"en:Buttocks",
"en:Personality"
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"word": "cheekily"
},
{
"word": "cheekiness"
},
{
"word": "cheeky chappie"
},
{
"word": "cheeky chops"
},
{
"word": "cheeky monkey"
},
{
"word": "cheeky Vimto"
},
{
"word": "cheeky yam"
}
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"name": "suf"
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"tags": [
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"superlative"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "brash"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "disrespectful"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "impish"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "impolite"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "mischievous"
}
],
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "lippy"
}
],
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"pos": "adj",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "facetious"
}
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"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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{
"ref": "1909, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 7, in The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England",
"text": "The Young Turks, as might have been expected, wrote in their customary flippant, cheeky style.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Impudent; impertinent; impertinently bold, often in a way that is regarded as endearing or amusing."
],
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[
"Impudent",
"impudent"
],
[
"impertinent",
"impertinent"
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) Impudent; impertinent; impertinently bold, often in a way that is regarded as endearing or amusing."
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
},
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"categories": [
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"examples": [
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"ref": "1984, Hugh Lunn, Queenslanders, page 159",
"text": "Barry said he introduced the cheeky bikini to the Coast three years ago: \"I took a theatrical garment worn for as long as there have been strippers and showgirls — the G-string — and put it on the beach and gave it a name and we sold a heap.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2002, Elle, volume 17",
"text": "Joyce Azria oversees a staff of twelve, manages a multimillion-dollar budget, and, in her first year as director of BCBG swimwear, designed cheeky bikinis and deep-V maillots that became top sellers at Bloomingdale's.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Tending to expose the cheeks of the buttocks."
],
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[
"cheeks",
"cheeks"
],
[
"buttocks",
"buttocks"
]
],
"qualifier": "underwear",
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal, of swimwear, underwear, etc.) Tending to expose the cheeks of the buttocks."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of swimwear"
],
"tags": [
"informal",
"usually"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Australian Aboriginal English",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1994, Victoria Katherine Burbank, Fighting Women: Anger and Aggression in Aboriginal Australia, Univ of California Press, page 57",
"text": "A death adder is cheeky, a tree snake quiet. Wasps are only cheeky if you hold them in your hand.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1995, Richard Shine, Australian Snakes: A Natural History, Cornell University Press, page 176",
"text": "There is no doubt that many have been killed by large elapids, and that Aborigines treat such 'cheeky' snakes (and colubrids of similar appearance) with great respect.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Poisonous (of animals such as snakes), dangerous, cunning, violent, potent."
],
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"poisonous"
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"dangerous",
"dangerous"
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"cunning",
"cunning"
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"(Australian Aboriginal) Poisonous (of animals such as snakes), dangerous, cunning, violent, potent."
]
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"British English",
"English informal terms",
"English terms with quotations",
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"New Zealand English"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2009, Amy Huberman, Hello, Heartbreak, Penguin UK",
"text": "Although sometimes I'd award myself a cheeky McDonald's hangover treat if I did well.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Richard Herring, How Not to Grow Up: A Coming of Age Memoir. Sort of., Random House, page 285",
"text": "It was a massive struggle to resist the lure of a cheeky beer, but I held firm.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, John Donoghue, Police, Crime & 999, Troubador Publishing Ltd, page 7",
"text": "It transpired that Mrs Egg had been cooking dinner when she discovered Mr Singlet making himself a sandwich. I don't know about you but it does seem a little bit naught after she's gone to all that effort. Naughty yes but hardly a crime and certainly not enough to warrant a 999 call. Yet that's what she had done. That's why we had left our own dinner, charged through rush hour traffic, disrupted commuters on their way home – all for a cheeky sandwich.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, James Goss, Torchwood: First Born, Random House, page 20",
"text": "The great thing was it gave him a little bit of freedom and me the chance to sneak a cheeky nap.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Indulged in."
],
"links": [
[
"Indulged",
"indulged"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Indulged in."
],
"tags": [
"Australia",
"Ireland",
"New-Zealand",
"UK",
"informal"
]
}
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"ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃiːki/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːki"
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"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
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"word": "sassy"
},
{
"word": "saucy"
},
{
"word": "insolent"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "audacious"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "bold"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "bold-faced"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "bold as brass"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "brassy"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "brazen"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "brazen-faced"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "cheeky"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "chutzpadik"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "cocket"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "cute"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"word": "dicacious"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "facey"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "familiar"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "flippant"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "flip"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "forward"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "fresh"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "impudent"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "impertinent"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "irreverent"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"word": "malapert"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"word": "pert"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheeky",
"word": "petulant"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nahalen",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "нахален"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "dǎrzǎk",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "дързък"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "descarat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "drzý"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nestydatý"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "fræk"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "brutaal"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "impertinenta"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "röyhkeä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "rääväsuinen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "näsäviisas"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "effronté"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "impertinent"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "insolent"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "guímaro"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "guicho"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "besbello"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fedello"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "salocho"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lendia"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "frech"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "thrasýs",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "θρασύς"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "itamós",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "ιταμός"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "impertinente"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "sfacciato"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sfrontato"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "impudente"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "dŕzok",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "др́зок"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "náhalen",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "на́хален"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "bezóbrazen",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "безо́бразен"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "whakatoi"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "frekk"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "frekk"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "ousado"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "atrevido"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "obraznic"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "impertinent"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "nerușinat"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dérzkij",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "де́рзкий"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "naxálʹnyj",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "наха́льный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "náglyj",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "на́глый"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "bragail"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "huncútsky"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "drzý"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "burlón"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pillastre"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "descarado"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pícaro"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "impertinente"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "insolente"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "fräck"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "yüzsüz"
},
{
"code": "fy",
"lang": "West Frisian",
"sense": "impudent; impertinent",
"word": "bretaal"
}
],
"word": "cheeky"
}
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