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badassness

noun

Etymology

From badass + -ness.

  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. formed as badassness — “badass + -ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality or state of being badass.

    • She led her lady mateys to great riches, eventually becoming captain of yet another crew, this time of male pirates who were entranced by her beauty and devoted to her badassness.
    • You get a cold smackdown if you don't at least feign badassness and say you've smoked weed.
    • Produced by Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo […] its tracks were more structured and cleaner than Magik Markers' earlier releases without watering down the band's innate badassness.

The neighborhood

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