pert

• pert breasts

• Goe Philoſtrate, / Stirre vp the Athenian youth to merriments, / Awake the peart and nimble ſpirit of mirth, / Turne melancholy foorth to funerals: […] - c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer...
• He was instantly attracted to Gladys's pert, fey humor and her good nature. - 2001, Donald Spoto, chapter 1, in Marilyn Monroe: The Biography, page 11:

Synonyms: saucy

• Says Mrs. Jervis, Pamela, don’t be pert to his Honour? You ſhould know your Diſtance; you ſee his Honour was only in Jeſt. - 1741, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XVI”, in Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded. […], 3rd edition,...
• [T]he Major began to think that Pen was growing exceedingly pert and conceited, and that the world made a great deal too much of him. - 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of...
• […]so that I couldn't help telling her, sir, that in our country, leastways in Virginia (they say the Yankees are very pert), young people don't speak of their elders so. - 1857–1859, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray,...

Synonyms: audacious bold get wise bold-faced bold as brass brassy brazen brazen-faced cheeky chutzpadik cocket cute dicacious facey familiar flippant flip forward fresh impious impudent impertinent insolent irreverent

• Some parled as perte · as prouyd well after, / And clappid more ffor þe coyne · þat þe kyng oweth hem / Thanne ffor comfforte of þe comyne […] - [15th century, “[Richard the Redeles.] Passus Quartus.”, in Walter...