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bodacious

(US) Audacious and unrestrained.

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#1·Apr 26, 2026

(US) Audacious and unrestrained.

If you’re going to lie, you might as well tell a bodacious lie.
Origin: Southern American slang, implied by bodaciously, 1837, either from bodily, totally, root and branch or a blend of bold and audacious. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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  • “Bearing in mind that he thinks America’s got bodacious knockers and bee-stung lips.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “bodacious moon raccoon hands stealing the night #haiku”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Why do they call it bodacious-calendar when you calendar the broiling food calendar out broiling bisect the food?”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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#2·Apr 26, 2026

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

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  • “Good morning, all of you bodacious and beautiful people of Bluesky!!! The coffee's been brewed, so grab a fucking ginormous cup and have the best day you can!!! 👋✌️☕☕🌞😃”

  • “Oliver Reed's torso simply too bodacious for the timeline”

: Then that bodacious Brer Rabbit, he go softly through the bresh, and just creep inside that pig and lay hisself down, and he lay out to keep he eye open and watch out for the cart, but ’fore he know hisself he fall asleep.
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  • “Good morning, all of you bodacious and beautiful people of Bluesky!!! The coffee's been brewed, so grab a fucking ginormous cup and have the best day you can!!! 👋✌️☕☕🌞😃”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Oliver Reed's torso simply too bodacious for the timeline”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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#3·Apr 26, 2026

(US) Incorrigible and insolent.

1898, Emma M. Bachus, “Tales of the Rabbit from Georgia Negroes” in Journal of American Folk-Lore (Vol 12, No 45), page 115. [http://books.google.com/books?id=agIpAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA115#v=onepage&q=bodacious&f=false Google Book page link].
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