procacious
Bold, forward, insolent.
Adjective
- Bold, forward, insolent.
- Another piece of Vain-glory to be Denied, is in The Reputation of strength and valour. The witless part of men, especially in their procacious humours, do use to be carried away with this […] - 1660, Richard Baxter,...
- 1882, John Brown, “Mr. Syme” in Horæ Subsecivæ, New Edition, First Series, Edinburgh: David Douglas, p. 370, In his little room in the Surgical Hospital—once the High School […] his house-surgeons and clerks and...
- Philosophy first became public when it proposed to teach character to this strapping lout with a procacious cock, the superfluous energy of a horse, and the restless attention of a child, […] - 1974, Guy Davenport,...
Origin
From Latin procax (“bold, impudent”), from proco (“ask, demand”), from procus (“suitor”).