bodacious
excellent, remarkable
TRANSLATION
bodacious = großartig, riesig --- GOOGLE INDEX bodacious: approximately 6,700,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
When it comes to BODACIOUS traffic backups, Los Angeles and New York dominate the competition. The San Diego Freeway in Los Angeles, with an average 20-minute backup, topped the list.
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The stunning 30-year-old showed off lean legs and a BODACIOUS bottom in a tiny string bikini. Her O'Neill wetsuit top clung to her toned abdomen and muscular arms.
(International Business Times)
(Washington Post)
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The stunning 30-year-old showed off lean legs and a BODACIOUS bottom in a tiny string bikini. Her O'Neill wetsuit top clung to her toned abdomen and muscular arms.
(International Business Times)
Did you
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bodacious
adjective
- impressive or remarkable; excellent
(Collins English Dictionary)
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Bodacious is a chiefly American slang term and a general-purpose superlative with various meanings ranging from bold, impressive, remarkable, huge, awesome and attractive to outstanding, daring and cheeky. The earliest record dates back to the mid 1800s, but it first gained popularity in the early 20th century American comic strip Snuffy Smith. It regained popularity in the mid 1980s after it was used to describe parts of the female anatomy in the film An Officer and A Gentlemen.
Bodacious is a portmanteau, which is a blend of two words. In this case, bodacious probably stems from "bold" and "audacious." The word "portmanteau" was first used in this context by Lewis Carroll in the book Through the Looking-Glass (1871), in which Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the coinage of the unusual words in Jabberwocky, where "slithy" means "lithe and slimy" and "mimsy" is "flimsy and miserable".
Although the Oxford English Dictionary was not bodacious enough to select bodacious as its 2012 Word of the Year, it did chose a portmanteau: omnishambles. This new word is a blend of omni (everywhere) and shambles (a state of confusion or disorder). It was coined by the writers of the satirical television programme The Thick Of It to describe a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, and is characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations.
True to the British sense of humour, omnishambles gave rise to several spin-offs such as:
— Romneyshambles. Coined to describe US presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s doubts that London had what it takes to host a successful Olympic Games.
— omnivoreshambles. This refers to a public uproar over the targeted killing of badgers in England and Wales.
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SYNONYMS
attractive, bold, great, outstanding, remarkable, huge, phenomenal, striking, wicked
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"The London Olympics opening was simply bodacious!"
adjective
- impressive or remarkable; excellent
(Collins English Dictionary)
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Bodacious is a chiefly American slang term and a general-purpose superlative with various meanings ranging from bold, impressive, remarkable, huge, awesome and attractive to outstanding, daring and cheeky. The earliest record dates back to the mid 1800s, but it first gained popularity in the early 20th century American comic strip Snuffy Smith. It regained popularity in the mid 1980s after it was used to describe parts of the female anatomy in the film An Officer and A Gentlemen.
Bodacious is a portmanteau, which is a blend of two words. In this case, bodacious probably stems from "bold" and "audacious." The word "portmanteau" was first used in this context by Lewis Carroll in the book Through the Looking-Glass (1871), in which Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the coinage of the unusual words in Jabberwocky, where "slithy" means "lithe and slimy" and "mimsy" is "flimsy and miserable".
Although the Oxford English Dictionary was not bodacious enough to select bodacious as its 2012 Word of the Year, it did chose a portmanteau: omnishambles. This new word is a blend of omni (everywhere) and shambles (a state of confusion or disorder). It was coined by the writers of the satirical television programme The Thick Of It to describe a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, and is characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations.
True to the British sense of humour, omnishambles gave rise to several spin-offs such as:
— Romneyshambles. Coined to describe US presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s doubts that London had what it takes to host a successful Olympic Games.
— omnivoreshambles. This refers to a public uproar over the targeted killing of badgers in England and Wales.
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SYNONYMS
attractive, bold, great, outstanding, remarkable, huge, phenomenal, striking, wicked
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"The London Olympics opening was simply bodacious!"
