different between effrontery vs bumptiousness
effrontery
English
Etymology
From late 17th century French effronterie, from effronté (“shameless, insolent”), from Old French esfronté, from Vulgar Latin *exfront?tus. Compare Latin effr?ns (“barefaced”), from the prefix ex- (“from”) + fr?ns (“forehead”) (English: front).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??f??nt??i/, /??f??nt??i/
Noun
effrontery (countable and uncountable, plural effronteries)
- (uncountable) Insolent and shameless audacity.
- (countable) An act of insolent and shameless audacity.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:effrontery.
Related terms
- affront
Translations
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
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bumptiousness
English
Etymology
bumptious +? -ness
Noun
bumptiousness (usually uncountable, plural bumptiousnesses)
- The state of being bumptious; conceitedness.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 13,
- Gerald's special mixture of laziness and ambition seemed to crystallize under the camera into brutal bumptiousness.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 13,
Translations
References
- bumptiousness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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