big bad

短语

词形变化

big bads 复数 big bads

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A major adversary or antagonist of a piece of fiction.

词源

The noun was back-formed in 1998 in the episode “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered”, season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It is a nominalization derived from the long-established adjectival pattern within Big Bad Wolf and collocative constructions inspired by it (e.g., I tried to reason with her, but to her I'm just the big bad authority figure who can't be trusted).

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