1837 (implied in bodaciously), Southern U.S. slang, perhaps from bodyaciously "bodily, totally," or a blend of bold and audacious, which suits the earliest attested sense of the word. Popularized anew by 1982 Hollywood film "An Officer and a Gentleman."
mod. assertive; audacious. : That is a bodacious plan, for sure.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
They didn't hug the hips correctly or make the booty bodacious.
Customers stand in a narrow space decorated with posters of bodacious babes on motorbikes, advertising beer.
If you have some kids in tow, you'll find this show bodacious.
These bodacious barnyard buddies present a show featuring amazing stunts and laughable antics.
Ivy poses in a full-length one that accentuates her bodacious body.
None of the hot profs pictured above strikes me as especially bodacious.
First of all, the cheese-to-pasta ratio is pretty bodacious.
They are attractive, bodacious and charming filamentous gram-positive bacteria.