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i have heard this word used numerous times (the first in "An Officer and a Gentleman") and even on a box of cheese straws. it seems to be linked with the southern united states. i have investigated only a little but haven't really found much. does anyone know? do you know the etymology? thanks.
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notified for ads; but here is bodacious:
bodacious, adj.
/bəˈdeɪʃəs/
Forms: Also bowdacious.
Etymology: Perhaps a variant of English dialect boldacious, a combination of bold and audacious.
U.S. dial.
Complete, thorough, arrant. Also as adv. [OED2]
Draft additions 1997
2. slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.)
a. Excellent, fabulous, great.
b. Sexually attractive.
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i have heard this word used numerous times (the first in "An Officer and a Gentleman") and even on a box of cheese straws. it seems to be linked with the southern united states. i have investigated only a little but haven't really found much. does anyone know? do you know the etymology? thanks.
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>you will have the ads removed.
or worse..
"Weird that this spammer went to the trouble to post a relevant message. I debated with myself whether to remove the user as the links were blatant, but decided to give her the benefit of doubt. Removed the ads, but kept the user. I hope she doesn't repeat this behavior."
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>you will have the ads removed.
or worse..
"Weird that this spammer went to the trouble to post a relevant message. I debated with myself whether to remove the user as the links were blatant, but decided to give her the benefit of doubt. Removed the ads, but kept the user. I hope she doesn't repeat this behavior."
-Anu Garg [hope you don't mind the quote, Anu.]
I could be wrong, but it seems to me, yesterday there was one similar. Message at top, huge space in the middle and crazy adv. of some sort at the bottom (large colored pic). We'll wait and see.
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to whom it may concern..
the way that the "ignore" function works is that for each "ignored" post I see this:
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thus, an option for each and every "ignored" post!
I must admit that even I can not always resist.
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I could be wrong, but it seems to me, yesterday there was one
similar. Message at top, huge space in the middle and crazy
adv. of some sort at the bottom (large colored pic).
We'll wait and see.
yes, what you have just described is precisely what was here in this very thread. there. now I, too, have added nil to the dialectic of the forum.
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I could be wrong, but it seems to me, yesterday there was one
similar. Message at top, huge space in the middle and crazy
adv. of some sort at the bottom (large colored pic).
We'll wait and see.
yes, what you have just described is precisely what was here in this very thread. there. now I, too, have added nil to the dialectic of the forum. Do your thing. Whatever.
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>Whatever.
yup - back to ignore mode.
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to whom it may concern..
the way that the "ignore" function works is that for each "ignored" post I see this:
*** You are ignoring this user ***
Toggle the display of this post
thus, an option for each and every "ignored" post!
I must admit that even I can not always resist.
-joe (full disclosure) friday Whatever. The sad part is, he puts me on "ignore", takes me off, puts me on, takes me off. Must be rough living with so much rancor.
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't is a bitter pill to swallow that this the origin of this word:
rancor
early 13c., from O.Fr. rancor, from L. rancorem "rancidness, grudge, bitterness," from L. rancere "to stink" (see rancid).
is attributed to my Old Frisian ancestors. It does not look O.Fr. to me and I doubt if the Old Romans ever made it to the Frisian regions at all. Their heavy armour must have got stuck in mud and peat. It'll get a strikethrough in my dictionary at once. A bodacious act.
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rancor ... is attributed to my Old Frisian ancestors.
By whom? The dictionaries I took a quick peek at all have its origin in Latin (as your cited etymology does, too).
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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rancor ... is attributed to my Old Frisian ancestors.
By whom? The dictionaries I took a quick peek at all have its origin in Latin (as your cited etymology does, too). This is Online Etymology, it looked weird to me, very unfrisian. Let the cows fly! 
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This is Online Etymology, it looked weird to me, very unfrisian.
MdR (as the French txt). I did not even see it, though it was right in front of me. O.Fr. expands to Old French, not Old Frisian.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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I like the Latin: 'rancere', to stink.
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I suffer from tunnel vieuw. Of course, how could I forget the French. Volez, les anges!
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