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
zmježdI don't think so.
Bodacious is an American dialect word.
Boudicca also died around 61 CE.
September 21, 2006, 03:15
Granny O'DoulThe 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?