bodacious
bo·da·cious
adjective
1.
2.
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
Origin
Southern American slang, implied by bodaciously, 1837, either from bodyaciously (“bodily, totally, root and branch”, antebellum South Carolina) or a blend of bold and audacious.
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