cheeky
Adjective Satellite
- offensively bold
Adj
- Impudent; impertinent; impertinently bold, often in a way that is regarded as endearing or amusing.
- Tending to expose the cheeks of the buttocks.
- Poisonous (of animals such as snakes), dangerous, cunning, violent, potent.
- Indulged in.
Adjective
- Impudent or disrespectful, often in an amusing way.
Examples
- Her CHEEKY play earned a bingo and a smirk from her Words With Friends opponent.
Origin / Etymology
From cheek + -y.
Compary typologically barefaced, bald-faced; Italian sfacciato (< Latin ex- + faciēs); French effronté, Italian sfrontato (< Latin ex- + frons), Polish czelny (< czoło).
Synonyms
brash, nervy, audacious, bold, bold as brass, bold-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, cheeky, chutzpadik, cocket, cute, dicacious, facey, familiar, flip, flippant, forward, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, irreverent, malapert, pert, petulant, sassy, saucy
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 18
cheeky: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcheeky: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cheeky: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary