An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 91

Germ. _bot_, id. from _biet-en_, to offer. Isl. _bud_, a proffer, from _bioth-a_, offerre, exhibere, praebere.

BODE, _s._ Delay.

_Sir Egeir._

BODDUM, _s._

1. Bottom.

_Douglas._

2. Hollow, valley.

_Douglas._

Alem. _bodem_, Germ. Belg. _boden_, solum, fundus.

BODEN, _part. pa._ Proffered.

V. ~Bode~, _v._

BODEN, BODIN, BODYN, _part. pa._

1. Prepared, provided, furnished, in whatever way, S.

_Acts Ja. I._

_Weil-boden_, or _ill-boden_, well, or ill provided in whatever respect, S.

2. It seems to be used, in one instance, in an oblique sense, as signifying matched.

V. ~Boun~.

_Barbour._

Su. G. _bo_, Isl. _bo-a_, to prepare, to provide; _wael bodd_, well provided against the cold.

BODY, _s._ Strength, bodily ability.

_Barbour._

A. S. _bodig_ not only signifies the body in general, but stature.

BODLE, BODDLE, _s._ A copper coin, of the value of two pennies Scots, or the third part of an English penny.

_Rudd._

These pieces are said to have been denominated from a mint-master of the name of _Bothwell_.

BODWORD, BODWART, BODWORDE, _s._ A message, S. B.

_Wallace._

A. S. _boda_, a messenger, and _word_. Su. G. Isl. _bodword_ is edictum, mandatum.

BOETINGS, BUITINGS, _s. pl._ Half-boots, or leathern spatterdashes.

_Dunbar._

Teut. _boten schoen_, calceus rusticus e crudo corio; Kilian.

BOGGARDE, _s._ A bugbear.

_Rollocke._

A. Bor. _boggart_, a spectre. C. B. _bwg_, larva, terriculamentum.

BOGILL, BOGLE, _s._

1. A spectre, a hobgoblin, S. A. Bor.

_Douglas._

2. A scarecrow, a bugbear, S. synon. _doolie_, _cow_; being used in both senses.

C. B. _bugul_, fear, _bwgwly_, to frighten.

BOGILL _about the stacks_, or simply, _Bogle_, a play of children or young people, in which one hunts several others around the stacks of corn in a barn-yard, S.

_Ritson._

It seems the same game with that called _Barley-bracks_, q. v. The name has probably originated from the idea of the huntsman employed being a scarecrow to the rest.

BOGILL-BO, _s._

1. A hobgoblin or spectre, S.