An absurd exaggeration of bodily.
1833. It’s a mercy, madam, that the cowardly varments had n’t used you up body-aciously.—James Hall, ‘Legends of the West,’ p. 38. (Phila.).
1833. Ah, doctor, Geeho, you never seed sich a poor afflicted crittur as I be, with the misery in my tooth; it seems like it would jist use me up bodyaciously.—Id., p. 82.
1833. Nor can I regale you with the still more delicate repast of a constant repetition of the terms “bodyaciously, tetotaciously, obflisticated,” &c.—Preface to ‘Sketches of D. Crockett,’ p. 5.
1840. [It has been proclaimed abroad] that the Administration is bodaciously used up.—Mr. Wick of Indiana in the House of Representatives, July 20: Congressional Globe, p. 545.
1843. The snow had so teetolly kivered my tracks, and it was now snowing to bodaciously fast as to kiver as fast as I made them…. I gits bodaciously sker’d and hollows agin like the very ole Harry!—B. R. Hall (‘Robert Carlton’), ‘The New Purchase,’ i. 175–6.
1878. I saw a man in Stockton, California, who had been “bodaciously chawed up,” to use his own language, by a grizzly bear.—J. H. Beadle, ‘Western Wilds,’ p. 118.
1904. You got so you wouldn’t put yore heads inside of a church, an’ was a-talkin’ the new thought at sech a rate that you was ruinin’ yoreselves bodaciously.—W. N. Harben, ‘The Georgians,’ p. 69.
