英和和英

語源

From bad +‎ -ie.

発音

• IPA: /ˈbædi/
• 韻: -ædi

名詞

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.

   • 1986 February 13, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “A Victory for Democracy”, in Yes, Prime Minister, season 1, episode 6, spoken by Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne):

     All the press, the people and their elected leaders want to know are the goodies and who are the baddies.

   • 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 127:

     What really gets to me in these goodies versus baddies movies is just how useless the baddies are.

   • 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, →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, 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, 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.

参考

• badling

アナグラム

• abided