10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OUTDACIOUS»
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The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms
oudecious See OUTDACIOUS . ought; ought to Often used in preference to “
should.” “I ought to go to the store now.” ought to could Should be able to. “Her
husband ought to could make her behave.” (Eudora Welty, “Petrified Man,” 1941)
oui ...
Outdacious, a vulgar corruption of audacious. Davies, Supp. Eng. Glossary,
quotes an instance from Mrs. Trollope, and the following : — '£ were that
outdacious at 'bam. Tennyson, The Village Wife. Out-hees, \ Old English words
for a Ut-hest, ...
Wen ye serpose 'at any uf them air gam'- lers ken beat me a playin' uf seving up,
w'y then ye air a foolin' yerself outdacious. Es fur them tother games, I don't know
much 'bout 'em, but seving up hit air my game, jest to a dot, an' I do s'prise ...
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Milly: at Love's Extremes: A Romance of the Southland
“W'en ye serpose 'at any uf them air gam'lers ken beat me a playin' uf seving up,
w'y then ye air I foolin' yerself outdacious. Es fur them tother games, I don't know
much 'bout 'em, but seving up hit air my game, jest to a dot, an' I do s'prise ...
5
The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus
Ol' Miss Rabbit, she stuck her head out fum under de kivver, an' 'low, 'What de
name er goodness is de matter? You sholy must V hearn sump'n' outdacious in
yo' rambles, an' now dat you done woke me up, you des ez well ter tell me 'bout it
...
Joel Chandler Harris, Richard Chase, 2002
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The Knickerbocker; Or, New-York Monthly Magazine
This habit of using its fingers, whether it arise from ' combativeness,' as the
phrenologists would call it, or from ' outdacious himpidence,' as ' old Aunt Rachel'
would say, has always made me very cautious in my approaches to infants.
Beside ...
Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, 1839
This habit of using its fingers, whether it arise from ' combativeness,' as the
phrenologists would call it, or from ' outdacious himpidence,' as ' old Aunt Rachel'
would say, has always made me very cautious in my approaches to infants.
Beside ...
And "outdacious" is what Lewis Carroll called a portmanteau word — that is, a
word formed when two words are collapsed into one, in this case outrageous and
audacious. About dusk-down the old miller and I arrived at Lawton's shack of a ...
Paul Green, Laurence G. Avery, 1998
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Great Expectations - Literary Touchstone Edition
But bearing in mind that them were which I meantersay of a stunning and
outdacious sort—alluding to them which bordered on weal- cutlets and dog-
fighting—a sincere well-wisher would adwise, Pip, their being dropped into your
meditations, ...
An' then, them eyes jes' set up sech a outdacious winkin' an' wallin', an' squinchin
', ez I knowed he war makin' faces at me. So I jes' riz up – an' the eyes slipped
away from thar in a hurry. I war aimin' ter larrup Birt fur his sass, but I stopped ter ...
Mary Noailles Murfree, 2006
