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- Dictionarycheeky/ˈtʃiːki/
adjective
- 1. showing a lack of respect or politeness in a way that is amusing or appealing: British "a cheeky grin"
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Apr 23, 2011 · peppa pig, a nick jr tv show say cheeky like all the time. – user38338. Feb 27, 2013 at 0:09. 'Cheeky' is quite (and often unhelpfully) polysemous. ODO has: impudent or irreverent, typically in an amusing way. "a cheeky grin" ... synonyms: impudent, impertinent, insolent, ... mannerless, rude, insulting. – Edwin Ashworth.
5) gives the example of cheeky meaning vicious, rough, violent, or perhaps very spicy chilli sauce. English meanings of “cheeky” do not have the same connotations. provides: From by Jay Mary Arthur (p89): Cheeky is a word used widely throughout Aboriginal Australia to mean not just insolence but behaviour that is dangerous, or violent.
But impudent in the sense of "cocky boldness" (as Merriam-Webster's Eleventh Collegiate Dictionary puts it) isn't necessarily a simple matter of regrettable rudeness or disrespectfulness, and I can imagine cheeky, in this same sense, implying (as Rick Deckard suggests in another answer) a kind of free-spirited sassiness that is actually charming and even admirable.
A foolish person, a cheeky, unwashed child. For many years, in London working-class slang, Herbert or ’Erbert was used to refer to any otherwise unnamed man or boy. Gradually, probably by being used in phrases such as ‘silly ’erbert’, it came to have the more pejorative sense. There probably never was an eponymous Herbert; it was merely ...
Also, here, we (men especially) quite often refer to each other as slags in a very humorous way by extending the 'a', as in, 'You slaaaaag'. And it just means to suggest someone's being a bit cheeky or naughty. And in that context, especially if you're a bit of a lad, it's almost a compliment!
The definition given in dictionaries is the same and implies a defiant attitude:. Do your worst:. used for saying that you are not frightened by something or someone because you are confident that they cannot harm you.
Aug 2, 2014 · A good-looking cheeky fellow. Yahoo! answers. Symptoms of being a handsome devil include being good-looking, rich and a jerk. Often a playboy. TV Tropes. The very Devil, himself, is supposed to look amazingly-charming, and can attract almost any woman. Therefore, a guy who's " devilishly handsome / good-looking " is a man who looks so ...
@Snubian: It certainly is a fascinating topic. My personal theory on that (based on little hard evidence, but seems plausible) is that it's related to the use of strong insults between friends: with stronger language there is a 'bonding' effect where it is understood by both parties that the insult-calling is not serious, and that the social bond between the two is so strong that use of such a ...
Sep 29, 2014 · With regard to the origin of gander in the sense of "take a long look at," it's interesting to compare the definitions of gonder in Thomas Darlington, Folk-Speech of South Cheshire (1887) with the corresponding definitions in Robert Holland, A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Cheshire (1886)—just one year earlier.
Sep 4, 2015 · Being ‘cheeky’ in the UK often means ‘overstepping the mark’ or ‘asking too much, or taking too much’. But dictionary definitions don’t seem to depict that. They talk mostly about apple-cheeked urchins, which are also cheeky, but ‘being a bit cheeky’ also means ‘asking for too much, more than you deserve’.
