effrontery

English

Etymology

From late 17th century (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French effronterie, from effronté (“shameless, insolent”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French esfronté, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  *exfrontātus. Compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin effrōns (“barefaced”), from the prefix ex- (“from”) + frōns (“forehead”) (English: front).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈfɹʌntəɹi/, /ɛˈfɹʌntəɹi/

Noun

effrontery (countable and uncountable, plural effronteries)

1. (uncountable) Insolent and shameless audacity.

   We even had the effrontery to suggest that he should leave the country.

2. (countable) An act of insolent and shameless audacity.

   Any refusal to salute the president shall be counted as an effrontery.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:effrontery.

Related terms

• affront

Translations

insolent and shameless audacity

• Armenian: անամոթություն (hy) (anamotʻutʻyun), լկտիություն (hy) (lktiutʻyun), անպատկառություն (hy) (anpatkaṙutʻyun), լրբություն (hy) (lrbutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: наха́лство (bg) n (nahálstvo), безочливост (bg) f (bezočlivost)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 厚顏無恥／厚颜无耻 (zh) (hòuyánwúchǐ), 厚颜无耻 (zh) (hòuyánwúchǐ)

• Dutch: onbeschaamdheid (nl)
• French: effronterie (fr) f
• German: Dreistigkeit (de), Frechheit (de) f, Unverschämtheit (de) f
• Greek: θράσος (el) n (thrásos)
• Hebrew: חוצפה f (chutzpá)
• Hungarian: arcátlanság (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Icelandic: ósvífni f, óskammfeilni f
• Irish: neamhnáire f
• Italian: sfrontatezza (it)
• Japanese: 厚顔無恥 (ja) (こうがんむち, kōganmuchi)
• Korean: 뻔뻔스러움 (ppeonppeonseureoum)
• Portuguese: descaramento (pt) m, acinte (pt) m, desfaçatez (pt) f
• Romanian: sfruntare (ro) f, nerușinare (ro) f, insolență (ro) f
• Russian: бессты́дство (ru) n (besstýdstvo), на́глость (ru) f (náglostʹ), наха́льство (ru) n (naxálʹstvo), беззасте́нчивость (ru) f (bezzasténčivostʹ)
• Spanish: desfachatez (es) f, desvergüenza (es) f, descaro (es)
• Swedish: fräckhet (sv) c, oförskämdhet (sv) c

References

• 2005, Ed. Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised), Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• “Effrontery, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1989.