badassery

noun
/bædˈæsəɹi/US

Etymology

From badass + -ery.

  1. inherited from *h₁órsos
  2. inherited from *arsaz
  3. inherited from *ars
  4. inherited from ærs
  5. inherited from ars
  6. compounded as badass — “bad + ass
  7. suffixed as badassery — “badass + ery

Definitions

  1. The behaviour or quality of a badass

    The behaviour or quality of a badass; belligerence, audaciousness, etc.

    • Think The Dying Earth with added barbarian badassery — this is some very superior genre-blending.
    • ...he could always remember the badassery it took to survive the labyrinth.
    • ...the crowning moment of badassery

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for badassery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA