bodacious

Etymology
Southern American slang, implied by, 1837, either from (as in “the pigs broke into my fence and destroyed the potato patch bodyaciously”), South Carolina, or a blend of and.

Adjective

 * 1)  Audacious and unrestrained.
 * If you’re going to lie, you might as well tell a bodacious lie.
 * 1) * 1898, Emma M. Bachus, “Tales of the Rabbit from Georgia Negroes” in Journal of American Folk-Lore (Vol 12, No 45), page 115. Google Book page link.
 * 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.
 * 1) * 2007, Darryl Scriven, Daphne Rolle (foreword), A Dealer of Old Clothes: Philosophical Conversations with David Walker, Preface, |most+bodacious%22&hl=en&ei=Mw1uTqGhG8jZmAXkn_EN&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC0Q6AEwATge#v=onepage&q=%22more|most%20bodacious%22&f=false page xiii:
 * Modestly titled ‘Appeal’ with a more particular subtitle, Walker’s text was probably the most bodacious expression of cultural discontent and disavowal of slavery that American society had ever known.
 * 1)  Incorrigible and insolent.
 * You, sir, are a bodacious scoundrel.
 * 1)  Impressively great in size, and enormous; extraordinary.
 * 2) * 1999, Leo Frankowski, A Boy and His Tank, Baen, First Hardback Printing, pg. 1:
 * Twenty meters in diameter to match the bore of the huge Japanese ore drilling machines, the floor had been leveled by an equally bodacious milling robot, and the shiny metallic walls seemed to stretch on to infinity.
 * 1)  Sexy, attractive.
 * 1) * 1999, Leo Frankowski, A Boy and His Tank, Baen, First Hardback Printing, pg. 1:
 * Twenty meters in diameter to match the bore of the huge Japanese ore drilling machines, the floor had been leveled by an equally bodacious milling robot, and the shiny metallic walls seemed to stretch on to infinity.
 * 1)  Sexy, attractive.
 * 1)  Sexy, attractive.

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Adverb

 * 1)  Bodaciously.