Fresh mint chopped around sweet course, ultimately (8)
I believe the answer is:
impudent
'fresh' is the definition.
(I know that fresh can be written as impudent)
'mint chopped around sweet course ultimately' is the wordplay.
'chopped' indicates anagramming the letters (letters chopped or smashed up).
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'sweet' becomes 'pud' (pud is a kind of sweet).
'ultimately' says to take the final letters.
The last letter of 'course' is 'e'.
'mint' is an anagram of 'imnt'.
'pud'+'e'='pude'
'imnt' going around 'pude' is 'IMPUDENT'.
(Other definitions for impudent that I've seen before include "Saucy" , "Audacious" , "Rude" , "Impertinent, insolent" , "Cheeky, disrespectful" .)