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| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : chee-kee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈtʃi ki |
Definition of cheeky
Origin :- 1859, from cheek in its sense of "insolence" + -y (2). Related: Cheekily; cheekiness.
- adj impudent
- What will you do, you cheeky boy, if they ask us for our board in advance?
- Extract from : « The Boy Settlers » by Noah Brooks
- I couldn't do a thing like that, and be so cheeky and unconcerned.
- Extract from : « Rival Pitchers of Oakdale » by Morgan Scott
- Jerry isn't as cheeky as he used to be in Flanders last year, is he?
- Extract from : « Pushed and the Return Push » by George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, (AKA Quex)
- Mallory he starts in to say that he's sorry for seemin' so cheeky; but that's about all he can say.
- Extract from : « Torchy » by Sewell Ford
- Dad, however, was not thinking of the waiter or his cheeky manner for the moment.
- Extract from : « Crown and Anchor » by John Conroy Hutcheson
- Why should I forgive her for what she has done to Busie, the cheeky woman?
- Extract from : « Jewish Children » by Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich
- They would gaze at her cheeky feather, whisper, “You pretty, pretty darling!”
- Extract from : « The Bill-Toppers » by Andre Castaigne
- "You are a strange lad if you are not a cheeky one," he said.
- Extract from : « Wikkey » by YAM
- John wondered how Scaife had divined that he wished to be cheeky.
- Extract from : « The Hill » by Horace Annesley Vachell
- One day she so far forgot herself as to murmur “Cheeky kids!”
- Extract from : « The Madcap of the School » by Angela Brazil
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