owdacious

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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. []