bodaciouslyadv.
U.S. dialect.
Completely, thoroughly.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adverb] > entirely, altogether, or completely
righteOE
allingOE
outlyOE
allOE
throughoutlyc1175
allingsa1225
throughouta1225
thoroughc1225
albedenec1300
outc1300
quitelyc1330
all-whollya1375
most widelya1382
all wholea1393
all-thinga1398
algate?a1400
algatesc1405
thoroughly1442
mainly1550
outrighta1560
outrightly1642
solely1710
teetotally1832
bodaciously1833
teetotaciously1833
orl1864
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > utterly
allOE
allOE
outlyOE
thwert-outc1175
skerea1225
thoroughc1225
downrightc1275
purec1300
purelyc1300
faira1325
finelyc1330
quitec1330
quitelyc1330
utterlyc1374
outerlya1382
plainlya1382
straighta1387
allutterly1389
starkc1390
oultrelya1393
plata1393
barec1400
outrightc1400
incomparablyc1422
absolutely?a1425
simpliciter?a1425
staringa1425
quitementa1450
properlyc1450
directly1455
merec1475
incomparable1482
preciselyc1503
clean?1515
cleara1522
plain1535
merely1546
stark1553
perfectly1555
right-down1566
simply1574
flat1577
flatly1577
skire1581
plumb1588
dead?1589
rankly1590
stark1593
sheera1600
start1599
handsmooth1600
peremptory1601
sheerly1601
rank1602
utter1619
point-blank1624
proofa1625
peremptorily1626
downrightly1632
right-down1646
solid1651
clever1664
just1668
hollow1671
entirely1673
blank1677
even down1677
cleverly1696
uncomparatively1702
subtly1733
point1762
cussed1779
regularly1789
unqualifiedly1789
irredeemably1790
positively1800
cussedly1802
heart1812
proper1816
slick1818
blankly1822
bang1828
smack1828
pluperfectly1831
unmitigatedly1832
bodaciously1833
unredeemedly1835
out of sight1839
bodacious1845
regular1846
thoroughly1846
ingrainedly1869
muckinga1880
fucking1893
motherless1898
self1907
stone1928
sideways1956
terminally1974
α.
β. 1833 J. Hall Legends of West 82 It seems like it would jist use me up bodyaciously.1833 Sketches & Eccentricities D. Crockett Pref. p. v A constant repetition of the terms bodyaciously, teetotaciously, obflisticated, &c.1837 A. Sherwood Gazetteer Georgia (ed. 3) 69 Bodaciously, wholly.
1840 Congress. Globe 20 July 545 [It has been proclaimed abroad] that the Administration is bodaciously used up.
1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. xix. 175 It was now snowing so bodaciously fast.
1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds viii. 118 I saw a man..who had been ‘bodaciously chawed up’, to use his own language, by a grizzly bear.
1887 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Story of Keedon Bluffs 104 He drug two needles bodaciously out an spiled fower rows.
1904 W. N. Harben Georgians vii. 69 You was ruinin' yoreselves bodaciously.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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