impudent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmpjʊdənt/
ipa: /ˈɪmpjədn̩t/
Forms: form: more impudent
form: impudenter
form: most impudent
form: impudentest
Etymology: From Middle English impudent, originally meaning immodest, shameless, from Latin impudēns (“shameless”), ultimately from in- + pudere (“to feel shame”).
Senses: examples: text: The impudent children would not stop talking in class.
text: Sir Iohn, ſir Iohn, I am well acquainted with your maner of wrenching the true cauſe,the falſe way. It is not a confident brow, nor the throng of wordes, that come with ſuch (more then impudent) ſawcines from you, can thruſt me from a leuell conſideration, […]
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 79, column 2:
text: “Wickam,” retorted Mrs. Pipchin, coloring, “is a wicked, impudent, bold-faced hussy.”
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “Paul’s Further Progress, Growth, and Character”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 75:
text: And another asked me if I had come to get a Canadian sweetheart; and a third, one of the impudentest, most conceitedest fellows I ever did set eyes upon, nudged me, so that I spilled my coffee all over my second-best damask-silk apron—the one with bugle fringe, you know, Miss Capel—and says he, 'Is it a case of Barkis is willin'?'
ref: 1877, Emma Jane Worboise, “The New Evangeline”, in The Grey House at Endlestone, London: James Clarke and Co., […]; Hodder and Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 480:
synonyms: word: bold
word: brazen-faced
word: insolent
word: audacious
word: bold
word: get wise
word: bold-faced
word: bold as brass
word: brassy
word: brazen
word: brazen-faced
word: cheeky
word: chutzpadik
word: cocket
word: cute
word: dicacious
word: facey
word: familiar
word: flippant
word: flip
word: forward
word: fresh
word: impudent
word: impertinent
word: insolent
word: irreverent
word: malapert
word: pert
word: petulant
word: sassy
word: saucy
glosses: Not showing due respect; bold-faced, impertinent.
examples: text: Dian. Good my Lord,
Aske him vpon his oath, if hee do’s thinke
He had not my virginity.
Kin. What ſaift thou to her?
Ber. She’s impudent my Lord,
And was a common gameſter to the Campe.
Dia. He do’s me wrong my Lord: If I were ſo,
He might haue bought me at a common price.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], page 252, column 2:
text: So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face, said vnto him, I haue peace offerings with me: this day haue I paid my vowes. Therefore came I forth to meete thee, diligently to seeke thy face, and I haue found thee.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 7:13–15:
text: Wine and women will make men of vnderstanding to fall away, and he that cleaueth to harlots will become impudent.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ecclesiasticus 19:2:
glosses: Lacking modesty or shame; indelicate.
Derived terms: impudently
impudentness
Related terms: word: impudence
word: impudency
word: impudicity
word: pudency
word: pudendal
word: pudendous
word: pudendum
word: pudent
word: pudibund
word: pudibundery
word: pudibundity
word: pudic
word: pudical
word: pudicity