bodacious

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Whether beanpoles or bodacious, these navel-gazing stars always leave the turtlenecks to the turtles To 'stache or not to' stache.

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  • A similar word also dating back to the 1960s, gigunda , was almost certainly a silly modification of gigantic , and the venerable bodacious was probably coined by some nineteenth-century wag combining bold and audacious Experts believe that it was probably coined add a humorous combination of huge and monstrous with little bit of tremendous thrown in Idaho Q: I think this will probably be an easy one. —  The Word Detective
  • She plans to "vote non-stop" for the bodacious brunette according to our amigos MTV tres. —  Celebrity Blog, Celebrity Pictures and Gossip Blogs
  • ⇐ Buxom, bodacious (but bogus) pirate perturbs Pennsylvania priest. —  MetaChat
  • "We'll throw jokes in," says Pudding President David J. Andersson '09, known onstage as the bodacious and sequined Afro Dite. —  The Harvard Crimson :: News
  • Wilson is Fish, the former drummer for a bodacious '80s hair metal band called Vesuvius. —  DVD Verdict
 

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  1. Probably from dialectal boldacious, blend of bold and audacious.
 

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