affrontiveness
/əˈfrʌntɪvnɪs/noun
The quality of being affrontive; impudence, effrontery.
Origin
Early 18th century; earliest use found in Nathan Bailey (d. 1742), lexicographer and schoolmaster. From affrontive + -ness.
- pitching stone
- pitching temperature
- pitching yeast
- pitch inspection
- pitch into
- pitch invasion
- pitch kettle
- pitch-kettled
- pitch knot
- pitch length
- pitch-like
- pitch line
- pitchman
- pitch mark
- pitch meter
- pitch-notation
- pitch note
- pitch of the ball
- pitch-oil
- pitch opal
- pitchout
- pitch-penny
- pitch-perfect
- pitch phoneme
- pitch pine