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Boudicca = bodacious?

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September 19, 2006, 20:39
<Asa Lovejoy>
Boudicca = bodacious?
Is there any possibility that the Celtic queen who kicked Rome's bum ca 400 CE might be the source for the term, "bodacious?" It's a stretch (over sixteen centuries, in fact!) but is it possible?
September 19, 2006, 21:05
zmježd
I don't think so. Bodacious is an American dialect word. Boudicca also died around 61 CE.


Ceci n'est pas un seing.
September 21, 2006, 03:15
Granny O'Doul
The prevailing wisdom is that it is a portmanteau of "bold" and "audacious". I don't recommend that you believe this, but lesbian-feminist poet Judy Grahn suggests that the just-as-colorful "bull dyke" derives from Boudicca.
September 21, 2006, 06:27
<Asa Lovejoy>
That would seem odd, since her rage towards Rome was ignited by their kiling her children, wasn't it? But then they claim Sappho, who, from what I've read, was a typical Greek bisexual, the norm for that culture.
September 21, 2006, 19:34
wordnerd
What's the counterpart of a bull dyke? A femma?