bodacious

adj
/boʊˈdeɪʃəs/

Etymology

Southern American slang, implied by bodaciously, 1837, either from bodyaciously (“bodily, totally, root and branch”, antebellum South Carolina) or a blend of bold and audacious.

Definitions

  1. Audacious and unrestrained.

    • If you’re going to lie, you might as well tell a bodacious lie.
  2. Incorrigible and insolent.

    • You, sir, are a bodacious scoundrel.
  3. Impressively great in size, and enormous

    Impressively great in size, and enormous; extraordinary.

    • bodacious - Extremely strong, as in reference to an incoming signal.
    • Twenty meters in diameter to match the bore of the huge Japanese ore drilling machines, the floor had been leveled by an equally bodacious milling robot, and the shiny metallic walls seemed to stretch on to infinity.
    • You can find the most bodacious barbecue and a library designed by noted postmodernist architect Michael Graves.
  4. + 2 more definitions
    1. Sexy, attractive.

      • Bill Ward has always been known for drawing the biggest, bustiest, most bodacious babes to strut across a comic book or cartoon panel.
    2. Bodaciously.

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