Bold, daring; audacious, presumptuous.

Of persons: Stout-hearted, courageous, daring, fearless; the opposite of ‘timid’ or ‘fearful’. Often, with admiration emphasized = brave, adj. 1a.

Bold, proud, forward, insolent, heinous.

Outspoken, forward in manner, bold, insolent. (Survives in the aphetized pert, adj. adv.n.2) Obsolete.

Forward, impudent; cheeky, pert. Now frequently in to be (also get) smart (with another) (colloquial).

Of a person, quality, action, etc.: presumptuous, impudent, saucy. Cf. also sauce malapert, n.

Excessively bold; unwarrantably or unduly brave; presumptuous.

Impudent, shameless; = effronted, adj. Obsolete.

Impudent, presumptuous; insolent or disrespectful, esp. towards those in authority. In later use usually with milder sense: impertinent, irreverent…

Lacking in respect or deference; presumptuous; = impertinent, adj. 4a(b).

Too familiar, too well known; too well acquainted with. Also: inappropriately or unduly intimate or informal.

In negative sense: audacious, culpably bold or daring; presumptuous; insubordinate. Obsolete.

Proud, conceited; arrogant, presumptuous, impudent.

Impudent, presumptuous; impertinent, cheeky.

Insolent. Obsolete.

Possessed of unblushing presumption, effrontery, or assurance; shamelessly forward, insolently disrespectful.

= pert, adj. rare (in later use chiefly U.S.).

Haughty, proud; saucy, insolent, impertinent.

Unrestrained by, or setting at defiance, the principles of decorum and morality; presumptuously wicked, impudent, shameless.

figurative. Saucy, peevish, crabbed. Perhaps primarily ‘heady’. Now Scottish.

Shameless, barefaced, unblushingly insolent.

Impudent, insolent, rude. Obsolete.

Ill-humoured, pettish, sulky; saucy, haughty.

Rumbustious, boisterous; rough, tough. Cf. earlier rifty tufty, adv. colloquial and regional in later use.

Characterized by ‘face’; insolent, impudent.

Bold, forward, impudent. Obsolete.

Having a bold or confident face or look; usually impudent.

transitive. To make too impertinent or forward.

Characterized by presumptuous speech or behaviour, or by intrusion or interference in that which is not… Of a person.

Insolent or arrogant in attitude or tone; forward, cheeky; provocative.

Contemptuous of rightful authority; presumptuously or offensively contemptuous; impertinently insulting. Said of those who treat superiors or equals…

Of a woman: nagging, scolding. Also: cheeky, impertinent.

Characterized by effrontery.

Insolently disrespectful; impertinent; = impudent, adj. 2.

Frank and open in conversation or dealings with others; ingenuous, unreserved. Also: showing a lack of proper reserve; overfamiliar, forward.

Impudent, presumptuous; insolent or disrespectful, esp. towards someone in authority.

Scottish and English regional (northern). Haughty, proud; insolent, impertinent. Cf. paughty, adj.

Of a person. English regional (East Anglian). Bold, impudent; unmanageable. Now rare.

Scottish. Esp. of a girl: lively, bold; forward.

Impudent or insolent, esp. in speech; forward or presumptuous, esp. in a way that is amusing or disarming.

Originally U.S. Forward, impertinent, rude. In later use chiefly in to get fresh (with someone): to behave in a disrespectful or impudent way; to…

colloquial. Overbearing; insolent.

Sharp (in various senses); spec. brusque; impudent, cheeky; ill-natured.

U.S. slang. Forward, impertinent, too free in conduct, over-familiar; reckless; usually in to get gay.

Brusque; impudent, cheeky; ill-natured. Cf. nebby, adj. 2.

U.S. colloquial. Confident; cheeky, impudent.

colloquial (chiefly British). Showing or characterized by an absence of reticence, shame, or humility; audacious; brazen; impudent. rare before late…

Impudent, arrogant, rude; excessively bold or feisty.

Bold; impertinent. Cf. facety, adj.

colloquial (chiefly British). Showing or characterized by a lack of shame or humility; audacious; shameless; brazen.

Esp. in Jewish usage: showing chutzpah; impudent, impertinent; audacious, very self-confident.