Definition of BODACIOUS

bodacious

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.

Examples

  • You, sir, are a bodacious scoundrel.

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.

Synonyms

audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent

Scrabble Score: 14

bodacious: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
bodacious: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bodacious: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 17

bodacious: valid Words With Friends Word