| 词组 | bodacious |
| 释义 | bodacious Although this word is entered in Reader's Digest 1983, Bremner 1980, and Nickles 1974, there is no usage problem attached to it. It's an American dialect term; the Dictionary of American Regional English labels it chiefly Southern and South Midland. Nickles calls it a "crackerbarrel term." Many people have met the word through the comic strip "Snuffy Smith," produced by Fred Lasswell. A typical use (we omit the cartoonist's balloon): • Elvineyü I got some bodacious gossip for ye ... The term has occasionally been adopted by the city slickers: • The bodacious business of buying and selling network television time —Geoffrey Colvin, Fortune, 20 Oct. 1980 • The most bodacious example in the U.S. of the plushy Victorian architecture —Time, 4 Sept. 1944 The word's origin is somewhat conjectural. It is probably related to audacious and to a British dialect term boldacious, believed to be a blend of bold and audacious, which is attested somewhat later than the American word. The adverb bodaciously is attested even earlier than bodacious, which makes it possible that bodacious is a back-formation. If we had more early evidence, we would need less guesswork. |
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