BODACIOUS

audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent

(adjective) 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; “bald-faced lies”; “brazen arrogance”; “the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress”- Bertrand Russell

bodacious

(adjective) incorrigible; “a bodacious gossip”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

bodacious (comparative more bodacious, superlative most bodacious)

(US) Audacious and unrestrained.

(US) Incorrigible and insolent.

(Australian slang, US slang) Impressively great in size, and enormous; extraordinary.

(of a person) Sexy, attractive.

Adverb

bodacious (comparative more bodacious, superlative most bodacious)

(US, nonstandard) Bodaciously.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

1 June 2025

BACKFIRE

(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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