bodacious adj

1 incorrigible; "a bodacious gossip"

2 unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bold-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell [syn: audacious, barefaced, bold-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent]

English

Adjective

1. audacious and unrestrained

   If you're going to lie, you might as well tell a bodacious lie.

2. incorrigible and insolent

   You, sir, are a bodacious scoundrel.

3. (Australia, slang) extraordinary, impressively great in size, and enormous.
   • 1999, Leo Frankowski, A Boy and His Tank, Baen, First Hardback Printing, pg. 1,

     Twenty meters in diameter to match the bore of the huge Japanese ore drilling machines, the floor had been leveled by an equally bodacious milling robot, and the shiny metallic walls seemed to stretch on to infinity.

Alternative spellings

• bardacious
• bowdacious

Bodacious can mean:

• Remarkable, courageous, audacious, spirited
• Bodacious the Bull
• In CB radio jargon, a general-purpose word of praise
• A variety of iris (plant)
• Voluptuous, attractive, "hot" appealing to the eye
• In spite of apparent similarity of both sound and meaning to proto-celtic *boudīka, "victorious" from which Boadicea of the Iceni takes her name, the word more likely stems from a combination of the words bold and audacious

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