cheeky chappie

plural cheeky chappies

1. colloquialA cheeky, likeable man or boy.

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   One reply given to the foregoing question was that "men do not go to church because they do not want to, and, in spite of Mr. Wade, this is still a partly free country." After firing this little squib off, the perpetrator of it must have felt relieved. He is the cheerful, cheeky chappie whom Evangelist Alexander would have fired at with his own dum-dum bullet, '"Two-Timothy-two-fifteen."

   1909 August 17, T. O. B., “In and Around Sydney”, in Cootamundra Herald, Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia, retrieved 15 Sep 2016, page 2