baddie

«baddie» in Mova's school dictionary: a bad person or villain in a story, film or game — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a baddie, baddies)

meaning for a pupil

1) (informal) A baddie is a bad person or villain in a story, film or game. tree →

2) (informal) A baddie can be any person or thing seen as the cause of trouble. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories, films and play: goodies and baddies; in talk about books and plays, the baddie is the villain or antagonist; it tells you who the reader should be against.

examples

• The baddie in the film had a secret lair. tree →
• We played goodies and baddies in the playground. tree →
• In fairy tales, the wolf is often the baddie. tree →
• The baddies got caught at the end. tree →
• Sugar is sometimes made the baddie of healthy eating. tree →

note

Informal; in essays write «villain» or «antagonist». Also spelt «baddy». Plural: baddies. Opposite: goodie (goody).

In the corpora

• Chinese dragons, lóng, are lucky and wise and bring rain — not the fire-breathing baddies of English stories.
• Mark in Bristol says, «Proper job, the writer made the baddie talk all posh.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «baddie» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.