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."