Prodominately used during the 80's and early 90's, bodacious is a
combination of the words bold and audacious. To be bodacious is to be:
impressive, awesome, brave in action,
remarkable, prodigious.
"Ted,
you and I have witnessed many things, but nothing as bodacious as what just happened."
"So please welcome, to tell us what he thinks of San Dimas, the most bodacious
philosophizer in
Ancient Greece...
Both: Socrates!"
{Describing Joan of Arc:} "A most bodacious solider, and general, Ms. Of Arc totally rousted the English from France."