Reverse Dictionary: PERT

ADJECTIVES
1400 — CROUSE in somewhat high or lively spirits; vivacious; pert, brisk, lively, jolly → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1400 — SMART forward, impudent; cheeky, pert → colloq.
1614 — OVER-PERTED made too pert, saucy, or self-conceited → obs.
1637 — PAUGHTY pert, impertinent, saucy, insolent → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1660 — PROCACIOUS forward, insolent, impudent, saucy, pert, petulant
1691 — COBBY stout, hearty, brisk, lively, pert, saucy, in good spirits, merry, cheerful, well in health → Eng. dial.
1790 — DANDY pert, frolicsome → Eng. dial.
1790 — GOPPISH pert, proud; pettish, apt to take offense → Eng. dial. obs.
..19C — BOBBEROUS pert, saucy, forward → Eng. dial.
..19C — CLIPPIE sharp of speech; snappish, pert → Sc.
1822 — BARDIE — BARDY forward, pert, shameless, insolent → Sc.
1825 — NASHIN chattering, pert → Sc.
1827 — SNIPTIOUS spruce, attractive; fastidious; lively, pert → Amer. dial.
1830 — DICACIOUS pert of speech; saucy; talkative → obs.
1845 — FRESH amorously over-free or cheeky; pert; forward; bold; impudent → sl., orig. US
1846 — TOITISH saucy, pert, or impudent; easily offended; flighty in temper; irritable, ill-tempered, snappish → Eng. dial.
1850 — TWIRTY cross, easily put out; pert → Amer. dial.
1856 — KECK pert, insolent, lively → Eng. dial.
1857 — YAFFIN pert, forward in speech → Sc.
1864 — BOBBER in high spirits, saucy, pert; venturesome, bold → Eng. dial.
1865 — CHUFF pert; determined → Eng. dial.
1870 — PERKISH conceited, pert or forward in manner; lively
1875 — COCKETY lively, vivacious, pert → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1875 — LIPPY impudent, rude, pert, disrespectful, talkative → sl.
1883 — MINXIN forward, pert, like a minx → Eng. dial.  
1889 — IMPERT pert, impertinent, impudent → Eng. dial.
1890 — FAUSTY — FEISTY — FICETY — FISTY — FYSTY irascible, angry, low, mean, cross; pert, impertinent, impudent, self-important; frisky, mettlesome → Amer. dial.
1894 — THWART — TWORT cross, contrary, ill-tempered; pert, saucy → Eng. dial.
1898 — CALLETING pert, saucy, gossiping → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 — CANTING saucy, pert → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 — CONK pert → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 — GANDYING pert, chattering, foolishly talkative → Sc. (Bk.)
1901 — KECKLE pert → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1903 — SNIPPISH conceited, vain, pert → sl. (Bk.)
1905 — HAFTY — HEFTY saucy, pert → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — TAUNT pert, saucy; high and mighty → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1913 — FLOSSY pert, impudent → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1917 — FIVE-SPOT pert, speaking from self-conceit → Sc.
1923 — NEBSIE — NEBSY impudent, pert → Sc. 

ADVERBS
1787 — CROUSELY boldly, confidently, briskly, pertly → Sc.
1898 — BARDILY pertly → Sc. (Bk.)

NOUNS
1621 — PROCACITY forwardness, petulance, sauciness, pertness, impudence
1720 — SPRUNT something pert, perky, or springy → obs.
..19C — HAWBAW impudence; pert, saucy speaking → Eng. dial.
1813 — GASH prattle, pert language → Sc.
1815 — TASH saucy, pert speech; impudence → Sc.
1835 — SAUCE sauciness, impertinence, pertness, brashness → colloq.
.M19 — SASS pertness; impudent talk → Amer. colloq.
1866 — GANGE pert, foolish speaking; a gossiping tongue → Sc.
1866 ​— GANDY pert, foolish talk; a brag, a boast → Sc. obs.
1882 — FLINK  a pert or insolent kind of deportment; a conceited, jaunty air; a frolic, a flirtation; a good time, a ‘fling’ → Sc. & Eng. & Amer dial.
1898 — BARDINESS forwardness, pertness, esp. as shown in conversation → Sc. (Bk.)

NOUNS – PERSON
1540 — PRINCOCK a pert, forward, saucy boy or youth; a conceited young fellow; a coxcomb → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1554 — SKIPJACK a pert, shallow-brained fellow; a young, impudent person; a conceited fop or dandy → arch.
1555 — JACKANAPES a playful term for a pert, forward child; a mischievous child; a ‘monkey’
1555 — JACKANAPES a ridiculous upstart; a pert, impertinent, or conceited fellow who assumes ridiculous airs; a coxcomb, a fop
1581 — PERTLING a pert or sharp child → obs.
1582 — SMATCHET a small, contemptible person; a mischievous, impudent, pert child; used as a term of  contempt or dislike → Sc.
1588 — SAUCE-BOX a pert, chattering child; a saucy, impudent fellow → colloq.
1622 — MALAPERT a presumptuous, impudent, pert, or saucy person → obs.
1623 — JANE-OF-APES a female ‘jackanapes’; a pert, forward girl → obs.
1632 — JACK-A-DANDY an insignificant little fellow; a little pert or conceited fellow
1647 — HUSSY — HUZZY formerly: a woman; a lass; hence, a strong country woman; a woman of low social status; also, a disreputable woman of improper behaviour, or of light or worthless character; a badly-behaved, pert, or mischievous girl
1698 — GIMCRACK a pert young woman; a spruce wench → UK sl.
1762 — TITTUP a pert, impudent or forward woman or girl; a hussy, a minx → Eng. dial.
1787 — GLIBS a sharper; a pert, sharp person → Sc. obs.
1790 — GANDY a bragging, boastful person; a pert talker → Sc. obs.
1795 — GAL a young pleasant, pert woman → Amer. sl.
..19C — BIRSIE a pert, forward child → Sc. 
..19C — BUBBLY-JOCK a pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow; a stupid boaster → sl.
..19C — CAGMAG a gossip, a newsmonger;  a pert, meddling woman or girl → Eng. dial.
..19C — TITTY-UPS a pert, forward girl → Eng. dial.
1813 — GAB-SNASH a pert or voluble chatterer → Sc. obs.
1816 — NASH-GOB a pert or gossiping person → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1818 — NASH-GAB a pert or gossiping person, an impertinent, ill-natured fellow, a forward, prattling girl → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1825 — NEBSIE an impudent or pert person → Sc. 
1833 — NACKET a pert, forward, smart boy; a trifling little person; an insignificant person; a wicked, mischievous, or impertinent child; a precocious child → Sc.
1839 — YIP a cheeky, pert person; an impudent, forward child or youth; a mischievous lad → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1841 — GABBIE — GABBY one who is loquacious and rather impudent in conversation; a pert, talkative person; a prater; a chatterbox; a tattler → Sc.
1848 — GAMINE a female gamin or street urchin; an attractively pert, mischievous, or elfish girl or young woman, usually small and slim, and with short hair
1853 — SACKET a term of abuse; a scamp, a rascal, a pert, impudent person → Sc.
1854 — YOUNG SHAVER a young male, a boy; a small, pert boy → colloq.
1867 — SNICKET a pert, saucy, forward girl; a term of reproach for a little girl; a naughty child; a dirty, careless, impudent woman → Eng. dial.
1871 — SASS-BOX a saucy, pert, or impudent woman or child → Amer. dial.
1887 — YAFF a chatterbox, a pert creature → Sc.
1891 — BANTAM a pert boy or youth → sl. (Bk.)
1893 — MONKEY a pert, vexatious child → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 — KEG-MEG a gossip, a newsmonger; a pert, meddling woman or girl → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1899 — CHIT a pert young girl → Amer. dial.
1899 — MINK a minx, a pert girl, a hussy → Amer. dial.
1901 — TITTY-UP a pert, impudent or forward woman or girl; a hussy, a minx → Eng. dial.
1903 — MINIKIN a slight affected girl; a pert fine girl → Eng. dial.  (Bk.)
1903 — NAFF a pert, talkative person → Sc. (Bk.)
1905 — POP-SQUIRT a pert, conceited man of small physique; an insignificant, pretentious fellow → Amer. dial.
1908 — NATTI a cross-tempered, malicious or pert fellow → Sc.
1911 — BRATCHART — BRATCHET a pert, mischievous child; a silly person; a true lover → Sc. (Bk.)
1923 — GAB-NASH a pert or voluble chatterer → Sc.
1957 — GIDGET a small girl; a lithe, pert, and attractive young woman → sl. 
1965 — SASS-BUCKET an impudent person, esp. a child; a saucy or pert woman or child → Amer. dial.
1965 — SASS-POT an impudent person, esp. a child; a saucy or pert woman or child → Amer. dial.
1965 — SASSY-BOX an impudent person, esp. a child; a saucy or pert woman or child → Amer. dial.
1981 — BAGGAGE a pert or impudent young woman → Aust. colloq. (Bk.)

VERBS
1621 — CAMPLE to scold, bully; to retort, answer pertly; to argue or contend saucily; to wrangle or quarrel; to be sulky or cross → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
..19C — KIM-KAM to bicker, to argue, to retort; to use pert language → Eng. dial.
1808 — GANDY to talk in a blustering, boastful, or pert fashion → Sc. obs.
1808 — GANIE to talk in a blustering, boastful, or pert fashion → Sc. obs.
1808 — YAFF to chatter, to prate, to talk pertly → Sc.
1810 — SET UP ONE’S GASH to talk pertly; to give an insolent reply → Sc. 
1820 — CHELP to produce a chirping or squeaking sound, as a bird; to chatter or speak pertly or saucily; to talk too much → Eng. dial.
1825 — CANSE — CANSH to speak in a pert and saucy style, as displaying a great degree of self-importance → Sc.
1825 — NASH to talk in a pert, impudent, or caustic manner → Sc.
1880 — GANGE to talk in a pert, silly manner; to talk insolently → Sc.
1880 — GAUNGE to talk in a pert, silly manner; to talk insolently → Sc. obs.
1898 — CANK to be pert or saucy → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1903 — NAFF to talk in a pert, senseless way; to argue snappishly, esp. of children and persons of diminutive appearance → Sc. (Bk.)