overboldadj.

a1425 (?a1350) Seven Sages (Galba) (1907) 2066 (MED) Euil blode es þe withyn; And, dame, þat sal be laten out, For þou ert ouer bald and ouer stout.

a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 885 (MED) Som [servants] be folyche, and som be ovirbolde; Som kepe no concelle of doctrine to them tolde.

c1530 Court of Love 360 That I and alle Should ever drede to be too overbold Her to displese.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. v. 3 (Beldams) as you are? Sawcy, and ouer-bold, how did you dare To Trade, and Trafficke with Macbeth? View more context for this quotation

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Norf. 253 John Fastolfe Knight..the Stage hath been overbold with his memory, making him a Thrasonical Puff, and emblem of Mock-valour.

1767 C. Smart tr. Horace Art of Poetry in tr. Horace Wks. (new ed.) IV. 265 They cou'd the spectators hold In numbers easy to be told, Chaste, frugal, and not over-bold.

a1791 J. Wesley Husbands & Wives vi. §4 in Wks. (1811) IX. 84 Why should a woman be so over bold as to call her husband, Tom, Ned, Dick?

1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh iii. 93 A tiptoe Danae, overbold and hot; Both arms a-flame to meet her wishing Jove Halfway.

1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island v. xxii. 177 I was going to do a foolish, over-bold act.

1952 R. Neill Moon in Scorpio xxviii. 249 It's the overbold cock whose neck is wrung.

1991 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 56 352 The tortuous curlicues of the oversized and overbold upper-case German script.