cheeky

Examples

• All

• Project Butter is the cheeky name for Google's attempt to make Android feel fast.

  Blog text (20)

• The lyrics are cheeky and it just sticks with you.

• We were up all night playing a cheeky little game apart.

  The Useless Hotline Podcast

• It's fun, it's cheeky, it's a little sexy.

• Anyway, I'm going to go back to my cheeky little book.

• No waitress had ever been that cheeky with them before.

  Fiction book (1994)

• It has kind of a cute, cheeky, cool little front end.

  Doug DeMuro

• You know, I'm tempted to have like a cheeky little nap on the beach.

• You're a cheeky git, you are.

  Give Them Wings (2021)

• The cheeky child made a funny face at the teacher during class.

Synonyms

S

sassy

vscheeky

• Informal

53 7.2

Being bold and lively in a rude or cheeky way

is more impudently bold and disrespectful rather than only playful

M

mischievous

vscheeky

27 3.5

Causing playful trouble that is not harmful

is more disrespectful and impudently bold rather than harmlessly playful

S

saucy

vscheeky

• Informal

22 5.8

Being playful and a little rude in a way that teases people

is more focused on clear disrespect and impudence than light play

W

wicked

vscheeky

4 4.0

Behaving in a naughty, playful way that annoys others

is more disrespectful and impudent rather than just annoyingly playful

R

roguish

vscheeky

3 6.7

Showing playful, friendly mischief

is more likely to offend by being impudently rude rather than charming

L

lippy

vscheeky

• Offensive

2 8.7

Rude or cheeky when talking back to people in charge

is generally impudently bold in many situations, not only talking back

A

alecky

vscheeky

• Informal

2 9.5

Being cheeky and trying to be clever in a way that annoys others

is impudently bold without the same sarcastic cleverness or irony

P

puckish

vscheeky

2 8.4

Being playful in a slightly naughty, teasing way

is more about bold disrespect and impudence than harmless teasing

C

chippy

vscheeky

• UK

1 7.7

Being lively and cheerful, often a little cheeky

is typically more boldly disrespectful and impudent than that light tone

N

nervy

vscheeky

1 7.6

Showing bold rudeness that upsets people

is more playfully amusing and deliberately impudent rather than only brash

P

pranky

vscheeky

• Informal

1 7.7

Shows playful energy and plays small tricks to surprise people

is more about bold impudence and disrespect than tricking others

S

spanky

vscheeky

• Informal

1 9.4

Behaving in a naughty, cheeky way that can lead to mild punishment

is more playfully bold and amusing rather than punished for rudeness

Antonyms

R

respectful

146 1.1

Being polite and showing admiration for someone

Compounds

C

cheeky chappie

• UK

1 8.8

A man who is playful and a little rude in a friendly way people like

C

cheeky chops

• Baby Talk

8.9

A person, often a child, who speaks or acts in a bold, playful, slightly rude way

How Cheeky

to brazen

1 7.4

impudent

10 7.9

saucy

• Informal

22 5.8

cheeky

• Informal

32 4.8

playful

72 1.6

well-behaved

20 2.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology