bodacious
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- incorrigible
- "a bodacious gossip"
- unrestrained by convention or propriety; ; ; - Los Angeles Times; ; ; - Bertrand Russell
- "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"
Adj
- Audacious and unrestrained.
- Incorrigible and insolent.
- Impressively great in size, and enormous; extraordinary.
- Sexy, attractive.
Adv
- Bodaciously.
Origin / Etymology
Southern American slang, implied by bodaciously, 1837, either from the word (possibly from South Carolina) bodyaciously (“bodily, totally, root and branch”)
(as in “the pigs broke into my fence and destroyed the potato patch bodyaciously”) or a blend of bold and audacious.
Scrabble Score: 14
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bodacious is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 17
bodacious is a valid Words With Friends word