dicacious

dicacious
adjective /daɪˈkeɪʃəs/
Talkative; pert; saucy.

So obstinate was this dicacious and pleonastic old man, in his struggles to monopolise the whole conversation in the salle-à-manger, that upon a gentle, respectable, and seedy English clergyman, with the usual amount of wife and children, gliding in, and beginning quietly to converse with his family, he violently wrenched the newspaper from the hands of the nearest waiter, and read out loud, at the top of his voice, an entire leading article !

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  • Dicacious — Di*ca cious, a. [L. dicax, dicacis, fr. dicere to say.] Talkative; pert; saucy. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • dicacious — /di kāˈshəs/ adjective • • • Main Entry: ↑dicacity …   Useful english dictionary

  • Dicacity — Di*cac i*ty, n. [L. dicacitas: cf. F. dicacit[ e]. See {Dicacious}.] Pertness; sauciness. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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