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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Help me with this one -- cheeky. How would you define that?[/quote] Bold/rude/disrespectful[/quote] I thought the meaning was “less severe”? They say it about birds, for example![/quote] Yes. It's more of a sly, quick-witted disrespect shown to one's superiors rather than bold rudeness. The whole concept of 'superiors' and 'manners' is so much more rigid there than here--so going against those boundaries I think one has to be more oblique and clever about it. And so 'cheek' feels like a person making a subtle zinger at someone in a postion of authority--not overt rudeness, which is really frowned on there, in my experience, anway.[/quote]
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