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bowdacious

bowdacious is the misspelling of bodacious.

Meaning of bodacious

Adjective

bodacious (comparative more bodacious, superlative most bodacious)

  1. (US) Audacious and unrestrained.
    • If you’re going to lie, you might as well tell a bodacious lie.
  2. (US) Incorrigible and insolent.
    • You, sir, are a bodacious scoundrel.
  3. (Australia, US, slang) Impressively great in size, and enormous; extraordinary.
    • bodacious - Extremely strong, as in reference to an incoming signal.1976, CBer's Handy Atlas/Dictionary, page 12, column 1
  4. Sexy, attractive.
    • [Patrick] Stewart has “been named The Most Bodacious Man on TV by the readers of TV Guide (1992), one of the 10 Sexiest Men by Playgirl (1995), and one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine (1995)”. Asked how he felt about TV Guide’s readers voting him “The Most Bodacious Man on TV,”...2004, Sara Gwenllian-Jones, Roberta E. Pearson, Cult Television, page 73

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Questions about bowdacious

What is bowdacious the misspelling of?
Bowdacious is the misspelling of bodacious.

Words near bowdacious in the dictionary

  1. bowcap
  2. bowcat
  3. bowcats
  4. bowcatted
  5. bowcatting
  6. bowdacious
  7. Bowden
  8. Bowden cable
  9. Bowden cables
  10. Bowdish
  11. Bowdishes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bowdacious (page history and authors); bodacious (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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