owdacious

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

for audacious. Southern and Western.


He had a daughter Molly, that was the most enticin', heart-distressin' creature that ever made a feller get owdacious.--Robb, Squatter Life.

Why, Major, you wouldn't take such a likely gall as that to New York?--the abolitionists would have her out of your hands quicker than you could say Jack Robinson. I was never so oudaciously put out with the abominable abolitionists before. It was enough to make a man what wasn't principled agin swearin', cus like a trooper.--Maj. Jone's Travels.