Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Remarkable; prodigious.
- adj. Audacious; gutsy.
- adv. Completely; extremely.
- adv. Audaciously; boldly.
Wiktionary
- adj. US Audacious and unrestrained.
- adj. US Incorrigible and insolent.
- adj. Australian slang, US slang Impressively great in size, and enormous; extraordinary.
- adj. of a person Sexy, attractive.
- adv. US, nonstandard Bodaciously.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. unrestrained by convention or propriety
- adj. incorrigible.
Etymologies
- 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. (Wiktionary)
- Probably from dialectal boldacious, blend of bold and audacious. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Among men this term is often preceded by the word "bodacious" for some inexplicable reason.”
“From then on, they referred to the bodacious OSS assistant by that “Dumas title,” and on such a slender reed a mutual understanding was formed.”
“NEW YORK (Associated Press) - It went viral as the ultimate example of being punished for circumstances beyond one's control: a woman who said she was fired from her banking job because she complained that her male colleagues called her bodacious figure a workplace distraction.”
The Huffington Post: Debrahlee Lorenzana Asks Human Rights Officials To Investigate Citibank (VIDEO)
“NEW YORK (AP) - It went viral as the ultimate example of being punished for circumstances beyond one's control: a woman who said she was fired from her banking job because she complained that her male colleagues called her bodacious figure a workplace distraction.”
“NEW YORK - It went viral as the ultimate example of being punished for circumstances beyond one's control: a woman who said she was fired from her banking job because she complained that her male colleagues called her bodacious figure a workplace distraction.”
“It went viral as the ultimate example of being punished for circumstances beyond one's control: a woman who said she was fired from her banking job because she complained that her male colleagues called her bodacious figure a workplace distraction.”
“During the live launch of Bayless's show from the SIRIUS Studios in midtown Manhattan, Bayless brought us back to the sweltering Julys of 1960s-era Ardmore, Oklahoma, with his "bodacious" Grandma Gladys -- known for her bright red hair, slinky dresses, and pointy tailed Cadillac.”
The Huffington Post: Daphne Duquesne: Rick Bayless' Deep Dish Peach Cobbler
“Still, I always liked "bodacious" because I could imagine its etymology to be improbably but appropriately descended from "Boadicea." posted by Matthew @ 8: 30 AM”
“Bearbee: Don't apologize about the "bodacious" comment.”
“She was a perfect foil for Provenza, the kind of bodacious 1950s bombshell you imagine he might really fall for in his civilian life.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bodacious’.
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Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
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Words I dislike
bodacious, falafels, moist, fjord, strengths, stewardesses, damp, dank, no homo, crappucino, cunt, phlegm and 1 more...
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Desultory Digressions
Also known as EsotericWench's Word Holding Tank. These are words that have caught my fancy but I have yet to file in the appropriate list. If I don't capture them here, I won't capture them at all.
desultory, abjure, immethodical, mentalist, subvertising, schmaltzy, fartlek, interstitial, ear-rent, brouhaha, crufty, malefactor and 34 more...
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The most awesome words.
abacot, aristology, autohagiography, backronym, bafflegab, bodacious, boustrophedonic, brobdingnagian, bromopnea, cachinnatory, dactylonomy, eagre and 26 more...
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ShellyKramer's list
No description, just words I like
bodacious, usurp, circuituous, conundrum, juxtaposition, veracity, vehemence, velocity
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Serendipity's Words
defenestration, mercurial, syzygy, wicked, iniquitous, metastable, demimonde, entropic, ephemeral, irreligious, frisbee, manifold and 474 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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known words
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antisyzygy, calenture, shill, saudade, sehnsucht, squonk, steganographic, anomie, wiggy, grok, hermeneutics, agrise and 206 more...
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Cessilind's Words
dvorak, ingenuity, cessation, oblique, transverse, anvilicious, evoke, verisimilitude, integrity, strega, recumbent, depression and 164 more...
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Logophile, The Back Page (AKA: just c...
node, nexus, locus, toroidal, ivory, kestrel, lyre, muscat, caldera, tapestry, codex, paragon and 103 more...
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FTL
Words listed first by me that don't belong in any other list.
licit, precis, mnemosyne, badinage, mariposa, lepidoptera, coruscation, poignant, meme, oxymoron, xenophobia, asterism and 128 more...
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edes's Words
table talk, tuneful, bestrewn, determinate fashion, unpretending, personage, duly impressed, shirring, caw, hatchet job, gummy, comely and 225 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bodacious.
strev sounds sexy? damn tootin! Aug 17, 2009
toniatriggy@gmail.com I think it sounds sexy. Aug 17, 2009
koan bold, daring and audacious Dec 5, 2008