impudent

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English impudent, originally meaning immodest, shameless, from Latin impudēns (shameless), ultimately from in- +‎ pudere (to feel shame).[1]

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Adjective

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impudent (comparative more impudent or (informal) impudenter, superlative most impudent or (informal) impudentest)

  1. Not showing due respect; bold-faced, impertinent.
    Synonyms: bold, brazen-faced, insolent; see also Thesaurus:cheeky
    The impudent children would not stop talking in class.
    • 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:
      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, []
    • 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:
      “Wickam,” retorted Mrs. Pipchin, coloring, “is a wicked, impudent, bold-faced hussy.”
    • 1877, Emma Jane Worboise, “The New Evangeline”, in The Grey House at Endlestone, London: James Clarke and Co., []; Hodder and Stoughton, [], →OCLC, page 480:
      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'?'
  2. (obsolete) Lacking modesty or shame; indelicate.

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References

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  1. ^ impudent”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin impudentem.

Adjective

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impudent m or f (masculine and feminine plural impudents)

  1. impudent

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French impudent, from Latin impudentem.

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Adjective

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impudent (feminine impudente, masculine plural impudents, feminine plural impudentes)

  1. impudent
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Middle English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin impudēns.

Adjective

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impudent

  1. shameless, immodest

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Middle French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin impudēns.

Adjective

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impudent m (feminine singular impudente, masculine plural impudens, feminine plural impudentes)

  1. impudent