Bodacious is an adjective and a portmanteau of “bold” and “audacious.” I often think of it as slang, but it is not. I believe it can be used to describe a wide range of things as you begin to incorporate it more into everyday conversation.
“The steak sauce was bodacious and gave the meat a very, very spicy flavor.”
“The young surfer caught a bodacious wave that would have scared most and rode it to the beach.”
“She wore a bodacious outfit to the football game that seemed out of place, but it turned a lot of heads as she entered.”
At first, “wamus” did not seem like a real word to me, but it is and has a specific meaning when describing a jacket. If you are familiar with the shirts worn by Native Americans in old western movies, those might be considered a wamus. Specifically, a wamus is a loose, fringed leather or cloth tunic. They were worn by pulling the garment over their head and then fastening it with a belt. A wamus is a noun describing this particular style of tunic.
“In the television show The Lone Ranger, Tonto often wore a wamus.”
“After a long day on the range, the old cowboy hung his worn leather wamus by the door, its fringes still dusty with prairie grit.”
These two words seem incongruent and difficult to combine in a sentence, but here are a few.
“Strutting into the barn dance in his hand-tooled boots and a fringed suede wamus, Jethro looked downright bodacious.”
“You could not miss Suzie at the hoedown, dancing in her bodacious blue wamus that shimmered like the prairie sky.”
“Clara created a bodacious velvet wamus for the county fair, turning every head from the pie booth to the pony corral.”
