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bodacious.

Audacious and unrestrained.

9 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/boʊˈdeɪʃəs/
  1. Audacious and unrestrained.

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

    US
    You, sir, are a bodacious scoundrel.
  3. Impressively great in size, and enormous; extraordinary.

    Australia · US · slang
  4. Sexy, attractive.

Where this word comes from

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.

adv/boʊˈdeɪʃəs/
  1. Bodaciously.

    US · nonstandard
Where this word comes from

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.

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