owdacious

"You may indeed, sir, and may the good Lord preserve you from a like harm, which hit make my blood boil to think of my pore Mark's hescape, him being what you might call owdacious to that degree.

The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines Kirk Munroe 1890

‘Say it again, you wile, owdacious fellow!’ said Mr. Bumble.

Oliver Twist 2007

With that she let loose the most owdacious white bantam and scattered some corn on the floor; then she sat down and laughed like an imp when the foolish thing hopped up to her and flopped onter her lap.

The Man Thou Gavest

"You owdacious young monkey!" he cried, slewing his head round on his shoulders, even as the old _Victory's_ hull slewed with the tide, so that he could look me full in the face.

Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene

"Now then, owdacious," she began, somewhat slurring of speech.

The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915

But none so owdacious ugly -- if you'll allow the expression.

The Invisible Man 1906

'I'll have a warrant out foh you dis day, Geddes, you owdacious villyum!'

A Woman Named Smith Marie Conway Oemler 1905

"Well! the owdacious!" exclaimed Mrs Bowldler in a kind of hysterical titter, snatching at her bodice somewhere over the region of her heart.

Hocken and Hunken Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

'You owdacious boy!' says I. 'Didn't you promise your ma you'd leave off them tricks?'

In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World 1902

But none so owdacious ugly—if you’ll allow the expression.

Mr. Thomas Marvel Herbert George 1898