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Definition of Bodacious
1. Adjective. Incorrigible. "A bodacious gossip"
2. Adjective. Unrestrained by convention or propriety. "The modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"
Similar to: Unashamed
Derivative terms: Audaciousness, Audacity, Brass, Brazenness, Insolence
Definition of Bodacious
1. Adjective. (American English) Audacious and unrestrained. ¹
2. Adjective. (American English) Incorrigible and insolent. ¹
3. Adjective. (Australian slang US slang) Impressively great in size, and enormous; extraordinary. ¹
4. Adjective. (context: of a person) Sexy, attractive. ¹
5. Adverb. (US nonstandard) Bodaciously. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bodacious
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bodacious
Literary usage of Bodacious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"I got some bodacious gossip for ye... The term has occasionally been adopted by
the city slickers The bodacious business of buying and selling network ..."
2. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"... want to be thes eat up bodacious alive by his own father about Julus Caesar
nor nobody else. ..."
3. The New Purchase: Or, Seven and a Half Years in the Far West by Baynard Rush Hall (1843)
"and then I gits bodacious, ly sker'd and hollows agin like the very ole Harry !
and walks and runs this way and that way—the snow blinding my eyes—but all ..."
4. The Story of Keedon Bluffs by Mary Noailles Murfree (1888)
"... was one terrific shriek from the cat-gut, and then his quivering hand held
the bow silent above the strings. " Air ye turned a bodacious idjit, Skimp ? ..."
5. The Catskills Alive! by Francine Silverman (2003)
"Stone Ridge bodacious BAGELS & COFFEEHOUSE Route 209, Stone Ridge •s 845-687-0472
An on-premise bakery makes bagels and pastries for this coffeehouse and ..."
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