Definitions
Impertinent, boldly playful, or slightly disrespectful.
Word origin
From cheek + -y.
Used in a sentence
“'Shut up,' said Harrison. 'You chaps always behave as if you were jawin' us when we come to jaw you.' / 'You're a lot too cheeky,' said Craye.”
“The Young Turks, as might have been expected, wrote in their customary flippant, cheeky style.”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Impertinently bold”6 letters
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