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

4 January 2025

RESURGE

(verb) rise again; “His need for a meal resurged”; “The candidate resurged after leaving politics for several years”


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Coffee Trivia

The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.

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