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bodacious (adj.)

1837 (implied in bodaciously), Southern U.S. slang, perhaps from bodyaciously "bodily, totally," or a blend of bold and audacious, which suits the earliest attested sense of the word. Popularized anew by the 1982 Hollywood film "An Officer and a Gentleman."

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Definitions of bodacious from WordNet

bodacious (adj.)
incorrigible;
a bodacious gossip
bodacious (adj.)
unrestrained by convention or propriety; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell;
Synonyms: audacious / barefaced / bald-faced / brassy / brazen / brazen-faced / insolent
From wordnet.princeton.edu

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