baddie

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Etymology[edit]

bad +‎ -ie.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈbædi/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ædi

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baddie (plural baddies)

  1. (informal) A person of bad character, especially in a work of fiction.
    Synonyms: antagonist, evildoer, villain
    Antonym: goodie
    In a western, the baddie typically wears a black hat.
    • 2006, That Mitchell and Webb Look, season 1, episode 1 (television production), spoken by Fritz (Robert Webb):
      Have you noticed that our caps have actually got little pictures of skulls on them… Hans, are we the baddies?
    • 2022 May 2, Peter Coy, quoting Alexandra Vacroux, “Putin’s Failure to Hold on to the Educated Could Be the World’s Gain”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN:
      It’s important not to brand all the Russians as the baddies in the world.
  2. (neologism, slang) An attractive, confident woman, especially one who is a social media influencer.
    • 2020, Kenshi Hayabusa, The Road to Becoming a Bad Bitch: How I Overcame Low-Self Esteem and Negativity‎[2], Hayabusa Publishing, →ISBN, page 56:
      Aside from all of the abstract aspects (things we cannot see), you do not have to be an Instagram model/baddie to be a bad bitch.
    • 2021, Priya-Alika Elias, Besharam: On Love and Other Bad Behaviors‎[3], Chicago: Chicago Review Press, →ISBN:
      All day long, she can immerse herself in the world of crop tops and contour and IG “baddies” that do not look like any Indian girl she knows.
    • 2021, Shauna Pomerantz, Miriam Field, “A TikTok Assemblage: Girlhood, Radical Media Engagement, and Parent–Child Generativity”, in Fiona Blaikie, editor, Visual and Cultural Identity Constructs of Global Youth and Young Adults: Situated, Embodied and Performed Ways of Being, Engaging and Belonging‎[4], Abingdon, England: Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN:
      Miriam noted that Instagram had “Insta baddies,” who made names for themselves by posing “with scandalous clothes on and maybe they'll have a bunch of makeup on.”
    • 2021, Zeba Blay, Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture‎[5], New York: St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN:
      On Instagram, baddies and models of every ethnicity rock fashion and beauty trends that Black women either created or popularized: cornrows, oversized door knocker earrings, long, intricately designed acrylic nails, artfully sculpted baby hairs.

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