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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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sauciness
English
Etymology
saucy +? -ness
Noun
sauciness (countable and uncountable, plural saucinesses)
- the property of being saucy
- an instance of saucy behavior
Translations
Anagrams
- issuances
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