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- Is baddest a proper word? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The word "baddest" does not describe the least desirable outcome When talking about the least desirable outcome, the word you want to use is "worst" Many wouldn't accept "baddest" as a proper word at all "Baddest" is common slang though, especially when used in conjunction with "biggest" Its usage comes from using "Bad" as slang word to mean "Cool" or "Tough"
- meaning of baddest - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
4 Check the Urban Dictionary Baddest, in Urban slang, means the coolest, the toughest, the best Select in convention usage can have that kind of connotation: this was a select gathering implying a very special group Slang usage of select has a similar meaning: man that girl is select meaning "classy" or "of quality"
- Can I use worse, worst instead of badder, baddest?
Ooh! - You are awful! I don't think I've ever encountered this kind of "slang semantic inversion" with worse, worst But I'm an ole fart, so I think badder, baddest = better, best just sounds stupid anyway
- idioms - Worse comes to worst or worst comes to worst - English . . .
Which is correct: worse comes to worst or worst comes to worst? The former seems more logical but the latter is what appears in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
- Does Bad Ass! have a positive or negative meaning?
That's an interesting question It was news to me a couple years ago when a former student said I was a badass (her spelling) I queried her, because it didn't sound complimentary to me, and she said it was -- it means (again, her definition, which I'm happy enough to accept) a person who is independent and competent enough to do what they start out to do, regardless of whether it's popular
- Where does the slang word bad + ass (badass) come from?
What is the origin of the word badass? Why a "bad" ass "bad" + "ass"? What is an ass that is bad and how can an ass that is bad describe a tough person?
- What is the original superlative form of well?
Well -> weller -> wellest Bad -> badder -> baddest It seems this conundrum is not a new issue conjured to present day, but rather a confusion caused from the irregularity of their declensions and even today, depending on your vernacular, some of these declensions are considered more acceptable than others e g 'goodest' and 'baddest'
- phrase requests - Was the mother of all a common expression before . . .
From the ngram it looks to me like it picked up steam in 1987, but then I start looking through the example and they seem to be mostly religious usages for the church being the mother of all Christians or Eve being mother of all the living So maybe he did coin "mother of all X" as meaning "the biggest and baddest of all X "
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