pert

Attractive.

Well-formed; shapely.

pert breasts

Lively; alert and cheerful; bright.

Goe Philoſtrate, / Stirre vp the Athenian youth to merriments, / Awake the peart and nimble ſpirit of mirth, / Turne melancholy foorth to funerals: […]

He was instantly attracted to Gladys's pert, fey humor and her good nature.

Especially of children or social inferiors: cheeky, impertinent.

Says Mrs. Jervis, Pamela, don’t be pert to his Honour? You ſhould know your Diſtance; you ſee his Honour was only in Jeſt.

[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.

Open; evident; unhidden.

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 […]

To behave with pertness; to misbehave.

An impudent person.