Cheeky
WordNet
adjective
(1) Offensively bold
"A brash newcomer disputed the age-old rules for admission to the club"
"A nervy thing to say"
WiktionaryText
Adjective
- Impudent; impertinent.
- 1899, Rudyard Kipling, Stalky & Co., ch. 4:
- "Shut up," said Harrison. "You chaps always behave as if you were jawin' us when we come to jaw you."
- "You're a lot too cheeky," said Craye.
- 1909, P. G. Wodehouse, The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England, ch. 7:
- The Young Turks, as might have been expected, wrote in their customary flippant, cheeky style.
- 1899, Rudyard Kipling, Stalky & Co., ch. 4: