baddie
English
Alternative forms
- baddy
Etymology
bad + -ie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbædi/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ædi
Noun
baddie (plural baddies)
- (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, 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, ISSN 0362-4331:
- It’s important not to brand all the Russians as the baddies in the world.
- (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, 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, 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 and 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, 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, 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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Translations
a person of bad character in a work of fiction
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Anagrams
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