bootylicious

adj
/ˌbuː.tiˈlɪ.ʃəs/UK/ˌbu.tiˈlɪ.ʃəs/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- ~ *dʰubʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-mḗn Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn Proto-Germanic *butmaz Proto-West Germanic *botm Old English botm Middle English botme English bott(om) Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English botty? English booty Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē- Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-der.? Proto-Italic *lakjō Latin laciō Latin dēliciō Latin dēliciae Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-der. Latin -ōsus Late Latin dēliciōsusbor. Anglo-Norman deliciousbor. Middle English delicious English delicious English -licious English bootylicious From booty + -licious. First attested in the 1990s and popularized by the song "Bootylicious" (2001) by Destiny's Child.

  1. derived from deliciousbor

Definitions

  1. Voluptuously attractive, especially of a woman's buttocks.

    • I don't think you're ready for this jelly / I don't think you're ready for this / 'Cause my body too bootylicious for ya, babe
    • Is it OK for a chunky, 40-something white guy to feel bootylicious? Oh, how I hope it's acceptable, because if feeling bootylicious is wrong, I don't wanna be right.
    • He lingered for a few minutes, vacantly watching a bootylicious black girl bump and grind to Pink’s catchy smash, “Get the Party Started.”
  2. Bad

    Bad; weak.

    • Your bark was loud, but your bite wasn't vicious / And them rhymes you were kickin' were quite bootylicious

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bootylicious. 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