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For pronunciation and definitions of しゃれる – see the following entry.
洒落る
[verb] [from 1660] to be stylish or smart in appearance and manner
[verb] [from 1787] to joke, to be witty
[verb] [from 1830s] (in modern usage, often in the past tense form しゃれた) to be flippant, to be saucy, impertinent
(This term, しゃれる, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)