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owdacious, a. colloq. (orig. U.S.)|aʊˈdeɪʃəs|
[? A ‘portmanteau’ blending of audacious a. and outrageous a.]
Impertinent, mischievous, bold. Hence owˈdaciously adv., outrageously.
1846in Bartlett Dict. Amer. (1848) 243 He had a daughter Molly, that was the most enticin', heart⁓distressin' creature that ever made a feller get owdacious. 1847in Ibid. 243, I was never so owdaciously put out with the abominable abolitionists before. 1857C. M. Yonge Dynevor Terrace I. vi. 81, I wonder you aren't ashamed of yourselves, and the family in such trouble! Downright owdacious! 1947W. de la Mare Coll. Stories for Children 98 Some crabbed old woman said they were owdacious, or imperent, or mischeevious. |
