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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈbædi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-baddie.wav Forms: baddies [plural]
Rhymes: -ædi Etymology: From bad + -ie. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|bad|ie}} bad + -ie Head templates: {{en-noun}} baddie (plural baddies)
  1. (informal) A person of bad character, especially in a work of fiction. Tags: informal Synonyms: antagonist, evildoer, villain Translations (a person of bad character in a work of fiction): skurk [common-gender] (Danish), slechterik [masculine] (Dutch), pahis (Finnish), méchant [masculine] (French), Bösewicht [masculine] (German), czarny charakter [masculine] (Polish), отрица́тельный геро́й/персона́ж (otricátelʹnyj gerój/personáž) [masculine] (Russian), плохо́й (ploxój) [masculine] (Russian), плохи́ш (ploxíš) [colloquial, masculine] (Russian), злоде́й (zlodéj) [masculine] (Russian), skurk [common-gender] (Swedish), bov [common-gender] (Swedish), dihiryn [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-baddie-en-noun-LDGeBJQ8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ie, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Welsh translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 76 24 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ie: 80 20 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 89 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 88 12 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 94 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 94 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 83 17 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 95 5 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 79 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 95 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 83 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Welsh translations: 95 5 Disambiguation of 'a person of bad character in a work of fiction': 97 3
  2. (neologism, slang) An attractive, confident woman, especially one who is a social media influencer. Tags: neologism, slang Categories (topical): Social media
    Sense id: en-baddie-en-noun-F5t~NjBz Disambiguation of Social media: 17 83 Categories (other): English neologisms
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: baddy Related terms: badling

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (f889f65 and 8fbd9e8). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.