owdacious

English

Adjective

owdacious (comparative more owdacious, superlative most owdacious)

1. Pronunciation spelling of audacious.
   • 1898, Paul Laurence Dunbar, chapter III, in The Uncalled: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 23:

     “Oh, as fur that matter, he ’ll learn devilment soon enough anywhere,” snapped Mrs. Warren, “with that owdacious father o’ his before him. […]”