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Aug 25, 2009

Malapert

— John Bell @ 9:37 pm Perm Link Cosmos
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Malapert, adj. Saucy, insolent, outspoken. From the Latin, mal- meaning badly, wrongly and apertum meaning open. [see,et,also] I presume, open in the sense of impolite, impolitic and unrestrained; as in the way that “uncovered language” is impolite and bawdy.

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