Etymology

bootylicious

boo·ty·li·cious
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Today it means: Voluptuously attractive, especially of a woman's buttocks. Full definition →

English delicious ← Middle English delicious ← Anglo-Norman delicious
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dʰewbʰ-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰudʰmḗn
  3. Proto-Germanic*butmaz
  4. Proto-West Germanic*botm
  5. Old Englishbotm
  6. Middle Englishbotme
  7. Englishbott(om)
  8. Englishbotty?
  9. Englishbooty
  10. Proto-Indo-European*de
  11. Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
  12. Proto-Italic*dē
  13. Latindē
  14. Latindē-
  15. Proto-Indo-European*deh₃-der.?
  16. Proto-Italic*lakjō
  17. Latinlaciō
  18. Latindēliciō
  19. Latindēliciae
  20. Proto-Indo-European*h₃ed-
  21. Proto-Indo-European*h₃édosder.?
  22. Late Latindēliciōsu
  23. Anglo-Normandelicious
  24. Middle Englishdelicious
  25. Englishdelicious
  26. English todaybootylicious

From booty + -licious. First attested in the 1990s and popularized by the song "Bootylicious" (2001) by Destiny's Child.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.