baddie

noun
/ˈbædi/

Etymology

From bad + -ie.

  1. derived from *bʰedʰ-
  2. derived from bæddel
  3. inherited from bad
  4. suffixed as baddie — “bad + ie

Definitions

  1. A person of bad character, especially in a work of fiction.

    • In a western, the baddie typically wears a black hat.
    • All the press, the people and their elected leaders want to know are the goodies and who are the baddies.
    • What really gets to me in these goodies versus baddies movies is just how useless the baddies are.
  2. An attractive, confident woman, especially one who is a social media influencer.

    • Aside from all of the abstract aspects (things we cannot see), you do not have to be an Instagram model/baddie to be a bad bitch.
    • All day long, she can immerse herself in the world of crop tops and contour and IG “baddies” that do not look like any Indian girl she knows.
    • Miriam noted that Instagram had “Insta baddies,” who made names for themselves by posing “with scandalous clothes on and maybe they'll have a bunch of makeup on.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for baddie. 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