Impudent; impertinent; impertinently bold, often in a way that is regarded as endearing or amusing.
'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.
Tending to expose the cheeks of the buttocks.
Barry said he introduced the cheeky bikini to the Coast three years ago: "I took a theatrical garment worn for as long as there have been strippers and showgirls — the G-string — and put it on the beach and gave it a name and we sold a heap."
Poisonous (of animals such as snakes), dangerous, cunning, violent, potent.
A death adder is cheeky, a tree snake quiet. Wasps are only cheeky if you hold them in your hand.
From cheek + -y. Compary typologically barefaced, bald-faced; Italian sfacciato (< Latin ex- + faciēs); French effronté, Italian sfrontato (< Latin ex- + frons), Polish czelny (< czoło).
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