bo.da.cious 也作 bow.da.cious
bodacious的音标和读音：
DJ音标发音： [bouˈdeiʃəs]或 bar.da.cious [bɑ:]
KK音标发音： [boˈdeʃəs]或 bar.da.cious [bɑ]
bodacious的词性：
adj.（形容词）
1. Remarkable; prodigious.
惊人的；异常的
2. Audacious; gutsy.
鲁莽的；勇敢的
bodacious的词性：
adv.（副词）
3. Completely; extremely.
完全地；极度地
4. Audaciously; boldly.
放肆地；鲁莽地
bodacious的词源：
5. Probably from dialectal boldacious
可能源自 方言 boldacious
bodacious的注释：
8. Popularized in the comic strip Snuffy Smith, bodacious is probably a blend of the words bold and audacious, whose combined senses are evident in the following description of Sevier County, Tennessee, as “the most bodacious display of tourisma this side of Anaheim” (Los Angeles Times). A more traditional meaning is “remarkable, prodigious”: “a bodacious amount of smoke” (Springfield MA Morning Union); “the most bodacious tale of hidden treasure” (Lawrence E. Will). Bodacious can also be an adverbial intensifier: “She's so bowdacious unreasonable when she's raised [irritated] ” (William T. Thompson). Black speech in New York City retains this Southernism as bardacious. Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary cites the form boldacious, which, as the likely source for bodacious, strengthens the theory that some archaic British expressions are preserved in the speech of the American South.
因胆大包天的斯纳费·史密斯 中的连载漫画而家喻户晓。其大概是 bold 和 audacious 两词的组合， 其组合意思在以下对田纳西州的塞费尔县的描述中很明显的：“阿纳海姆的大肆渲染的观光演出” （洛杉矶时报）。一个更传统的意思是“突出的，大量的”：“滚滚浓烟” （斯普林菲尔德·MA·联合晨报）；“关于隐藏的宝藏的最迷人传说” （劳伦斯·E·威尔）。Bodacious 也可用作加强语气的副词：“她被激［怒］ 时变得如此不可理喻” （威廉·T·汤普逊）。纽约市的黑人语言还保留了这一南方音bardacious。 约瑟夫·莱特编的英语方言辞典 记录了 boldacious 的形式， 它可能是boadacious 的来源， 这证实了以下的看法：一些古时的英语表达方式仍保留在美国南部方言中