overbold

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Middle English overbold, equivalent to over- + bold.

The girl kept her appointment unpainted and unadorned, afraid and overbold by turns. — The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition, Rudyard Kipling
Both of them were a little conscious of having been overbold, one for having suggested, and the other for having agreed to so significant an assignation. — The best British short stories of 1922, Unknown
So from headland to headland we made rapid, easy traverse, thoroughly enjoying the ride, munching chocolate and raisins, speculating about the seasons when it had been possible to cross direct from Nome to Saint Michael on the ice, and exchanging stories we had heard of the disasters and hairbreadth escapes attending such overbold venture. — Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled: A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska, Hudson Stuck

fresh, impertinent, impudent, smart, saucy, sassy, wise

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