bod
/bɑd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.05 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
noun
noun
noun
noun
Initialism of Brightlingsea One Design (sailing boat class).
Example Sentences
- "Fred likes to keep his bod in shape."
- "We are talking about a major bod here, and I don't care if half of it is plastic."
- "Harkin: Hey there, sweetheart. You looking for some fun? 'Cause I gotta say that soldier getup looks real good on that bod of yours."
- "He went to the upstairs lookout and peered down upon the political bod, whom he recognised as the fatso who had given a thin, starving speech one lunch-time to the new High School students[.]"
- "There were cameras covering car parks, offices, corridors and storage areas in the basement. Result. The security bods started watching as if their lives depended on it."
- "People such as William James and the Stephensons (with whom he collaborated) may have been the movers and shakers of the early railways, but there was other, less exalted bods who constructed all the paraphernalia - including stations."
Etymology
Clipping of body. The sense of “person” may alternatively derive from Scottish Gaelic bodach (“old man”) via Scots.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /bɑd/
- British English: /bɒd/
Usage
Inflected Forms
bods (plural)
the Bod (canonical)