Bad Definition
(countable, uncountable, economics) An item (kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted good.
(now colloquial) Badly.
- In trouble or disfavor.
- Used to acknowledge that one is at fault.
- Reasonably good.
- Used to express sadness or sympathy.
- Used in response to a protest or complaint to express insistence that the speaker's expectation be met.
- to become wicked, shiftless, etc.; degenerate
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Origin of Bad
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From Middle English bad, badde (“wicked, evil, depraved”), probably a shortening of Old English bæddel (“hermaphrodite”) (cf. English much, wench, from Old English myċel, wenċel), from bædan (“to defile”), from Proto-Germanic *bad- (cf. Old High German pad (“hermaphrodite”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoidʰ- (cf. Welsh baedd (“wild boar”), Latin foedus (“foul, filthy”), foedō (“to defile, pollute”)).
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From Middle English bad, from Old English bæd, first and third-person singular indicative past tense of biddan (“to ask”).
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Middle English badde perhaps from shortening of Old English bæddel hermaphrodite, effeminate or homosexual male
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Probably identical to bad, etymology 1, above, especially in the sense "bold, daring".
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