baddy
8
3.8
- noun
- /ˈbædi/
- Baby Talk
:
villano
- Every fairy tale has a baddy who makes the main character's journey difficult.
- goodies and baddies
- big old baddy
But it turns out Tim Cheese was doing the right thing, and John Paul was the baddie all along.
- But it turns out Tim Cheese was doing the right thing, and John Paul was the baddie all along.
- And what's what's going on with them is that the bottom is, have we reached the big baddies?
- Where we're sort of picking goodies and baddies on the basis of whether they're in our in Group or out group.
Examples
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How do you know who the goodies and the baddies are ?
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Finally, there is Lena Heady and her band of baddies.
Blog text (31) -
"You're quite the baddy," he said.
Fiction book (1994) -
All those big baddies locked behind stone doors seem certain he will let him out.
Blog text (9) -
Then you bring in the big baddies.
Blog text (21) -
And the agenda dictates that the army is always painted as the baddy.
Academic text (2017) -
Look, Supes, when we take down the baddies, they stay down.
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The Dark World has revealed the film's baddies, the Dark Elves.
Blog text (28) -
Little has been revealed about the plot except that McClane will battle baddies in Russia.
Blog text (12) -
She doesn't want to be the one who's viewed as the baddie, right?
Synonyms
415
3.0
A person who goes against others or causes harm
272
3.3
A person who does very bad things, often the main bad character in a story
104
1.6
A person who harms others on purpose or does wrong things
15
7.5
A person who does bad things to hurt other people
2
7.0
A person who is the main bad character in a story or film, often in children's stories
2
7.1
A woman who plays the bad person in a story
1
7.7
A man who does cruel or wrong things in stories
A clearly exaggerated evil character in a play who makes the audience boo
Antonyms
How Villainous
1
8.0
272
3.3
- Baby Talk
8
3.8
- Informal
415
3.0
- Literature
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word baddy is made from the simple word bad plus the ending -y, a common way to make a noun for a person, like goodie. So a baddy is someone who is 'bad', the villain in a story.