"bodacious" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "2007, Darryl Scriven, Daphne Rolle (foreword), A Dealer of Old Clothes: Philosophical Conversations with David Walker, Preface, page xiii",
          "text": "Modestly titled ‘Appeal’ with a more particular subtitle, Walker’s text was probably the most bodacious expression of cultural discontent and disavowal of slavery that American society had ever known."
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          "text": "You, sir, are a bodacious scoundrel."
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        "(US) Incorrigible and insolent."
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          "word": "stout"
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          "sense": "uncorrigible and insolent",
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          "text": "Twenty meters in diameter to match the bore of the huge Japanese ore drilling machines, the floor had been leveled by an equally bodacious milling robot, and the shiny metallic walls seemed to stretch on to infinity."
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        "(Australia, US, slang) Impressively great in size, and enormous; extraordinary."
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          "sense": "great in size",
          "word": "enorm"
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          "sense": "great in size",
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          "text": "[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,” Stewart replied, “It still astonishes me. It is truly incomprehensible to this day. But it’s very pleasant.”",
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          "ref": "2004, auction catalogue, #810 HCA New York Comic and Comic Art, page 123",
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        "(of a person) Sexy, attractive."
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          "word": "aantrekkelijk"
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          "text": "Twenty meters in diameter to match the bore of the huge Japanese ore drilling machines, the floor had been leveled by an equally bodacious milling robot, and the shiny metallic walls seemed to stretch on to infinity."
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      "sense": "audacious and unrestrained",
      "word": "unverfroren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "audacious and unrestrained",
      "word": "dreist"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "uncorrigible and insolent",
      "word": "stout"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "uncorrigible and insolent",
      "word": "brutaal"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "uncorrigible and insolent",
      "word": "rüde"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "uncorrigible and insolent",
      "word": "beleidigend"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "uncorrigible and insolent",
      "word": "unverbesserlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "great in size",
      "word": "enorm"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "great in size",
      "word": "groß"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "attractive",
      "word": "aantrekkelijk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "attractive",
      "word": "sexy"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "attractive",
      "word": "attraktiv"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "attractive",
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    }
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}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
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  "etymology_text": "Southern American slang, implied by bodaciously, 1837, either from bodyaciously (“bodily, totally, root and branch”)\n(as in “the pigs broke into my fence and destroyed the potato patch bodyaciously”), South Carolina, or a blend of bold and audacious.",
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    },
    {
      "form": "most bodacious",
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          "ref": "1935 October, Robert E. Howard, “The Riot at Cougar Paw”, in Action Stories",
          "text": "Well, he knows by this time, I reckon, that the fastest man afoot can’t noways match speed with a hornet. He taken out through the bresh and thickets, yelpin’ and hollerin’ and hoppin’ most bodacious. He run in a circle, too, for in three minutes he come bellerin’ back, gave one last hop and dove back into the thicket. By this time I figgered he’d wore the hornets out, so I came alive again.",
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        "Bodaciously."
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        "(US, nonstandard) Bodaciously."
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    {
      "word": "bardacious"
    },
    {
      "word": "boldacious"
    },
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      "word": "bowdacious"
    }
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}