bodacious, a. U.S. dial.
(bəˈdeɪʃəs)
Also bow-.
[Perh. a variant of Eng. dial. boldacious, a combination of bold and audacious.]
Complete, thorough, arrant. Also as adv.
| 1845 W. T. Thompson Chron. Pineville 178 She's so bowdacious unreasonable when she's raised. 1887 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Keedon Bluffs 153 Air ye turned a bodacious idjit, Skimp? 1941 Time 17 Mar. 23/2 The bodacious blurt did him no good with his brother Navy men. |
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Add: 2. slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.) a. Excellent, fabulous, great. b. Sexually attractive.
| 1976 C. Whelton CB Baby 168 A couple of days and you'll be doing a bodacious job again, for sure. 1979 Farmington (New Mexico) Daily Times 27 May (Comic Suppl.) 2 Thank goodness fer them bodacious child-proof caps. 1989 California Sept. 128/3 El Set, in the Conchas Chinas hotel south of town, serves bodacious grilled lobster. 1991–2 Filmfax Dec./Jan. 87 (Advt.), Curvaceous cuties and bodacious bouncing babes reveal the utmost in feminine beauty in these spicy peep shows and arcade loops. 1992 Premiere Jan. 97/4 Those bodacious dudes have an excellent time playing games with death. 1993 Face Sept. 110/1 The audience has a chance to check the baby oil dripping from the bodacious one's glistening torso. |