bodacious

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative forms 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Adjective 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 References

[edit] English

[edit] Alternative forms

• bardacious
• bowdacious

[edit] Etymology

Southern American slang, implied by bodaciously, 1837, either from bodyaciously (“‘bodily, totally, root and branch’”) (as in “the pigs broke into my fence and destroyed the potato patch bodyaciously”), South Carolina, or a blend of bold and audacious.^[1][2]

[edit] Adjective

bodacious (comparative more bodacious, superlative most bodacious)

1. (US) Audacious and unrestrained.

   If you're going to lie, you might as well tell a bodacious lie.

2. (US) Incorrigible and insolent.

   You, sir, are a bodacious scoundrel.

3. (Australian slang, US slang) Impressively great in size, and enormous; extraordinary.
   • 1999, Leo Frankowski, A Boy and His Tank, Baen, First Hardback Printing, pg. 1,

     Twenty meters in diameter to match the bore of the huge Japanese ore drilling machines, the floor had been leveled by an equally bodacious milling robot, and the shiny metallic walls seemed to stretch on to infinity.

4. (of a person) sexy, attractive.

[edit] Derived terms

• bodaciously

[edit] References

• Notes:

1. ^ Francis Lieber Americanisms, Anglicisms, etc, etc., aka, Notes on Language
2. ^ Francis Lieber’s Americanisms as an Early Source on Southern Speech