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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Remarkable; prodigious.
  2. adj. Audacious; gutsy.
  3. adv. Completely; extremely.
  4. adv. Audaciously; boldly.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. US Audacious and unrestrained.
  2. adj. US Incorrigible and insolent.
  3. adj. Australian slang, US slang Impressively great in size, and enormous; extraordinary.
  4. adj. of a person Sexy, attractive.
  5. adv. US, nonstandard Bodaciously.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. unrestrained by convention or propriety
  2. adj. incorrigible.

Etymologies

  1. 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)
  2. Probably from dialectal boldacious, blend of bold and audacious. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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