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bad to adjective phrase Having an unfortunate, undesirable, or excessive habit, inclination, reputation, or weakness for; having a proclivity to engage in annoying, detrimental, or troublesome behavior. [DARE labels this usage “chiefly Appalachians, especially western North Carolina, East Tennessee”]
1862 Councill CW Letters (Oct 23) this compy is the worst Co to Swear and gambol you ever seen in you life they play Cards day and nite. 1937 Hall Coll He was awful bad to drink. She was awful bad to talk. Ibid. (N. Phillips,Cosby TN) He was bad to hunt coon. 1959 Stubbs Mountain-Wise (Aug.-Sept.) 6 Among thefrequently used expressions when describing another is that he or she is “bad to” do something. “Bad” as thus used really means that the person described is addicted to a certain habit or possesses a certain trait. For example, a man may be “bad to go to church”–which does not infer that church-going is wrong, but–quite the reverse–that the man so described is a consistent church goer. But a man may also be “bad to drink” or “bad to smoke.” One day I met a woman who told me that her mother was ill in bed with an aching rheumatic knee. I told her that hot compresses might bring relief and asked if she had tried them. She replied, “No, my mother is bad to not want no heat put on any part of her body.” And, I might personally add that a lot of my neighbors are “bad to go fishing.” 1974 GSMNP-50:1:13 Grandmother was awful bad to have sick headache. 1985 Irwin Alex Stewart 185 [Bees are] not bad to sting when they’re swarming. Ibid. 196 The crow had walked in the pond to wash hisself, Iguess. They’re bad to wash all the time. 2001 Lowry Expressions 5 I’m the worst to freeze.