An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 90

BLUTE, _s._ An action; used in a bad sense. _A fuil blute_, a foolish action, S. B. perhaps the same with _Blout_, q. v.

BOAKIE, _s._ A sprite, a hobgoblin, Aberd. Shetl.

Norw. _bokje_, Isl. _bocke_, _bokki_, vir grandis et magnificus. In Sanscrit _buka_ is the name of an evil spirit. O. Teut. _bokene_, phantasma, spectrum.

BOAL, BOLE, _s._

1. A square aperture in the wall of a house, for holding small articles; a small press generally without a door; S. This is most common in cottages.

_Ramsay._

2. A perforation through the wall of a house, for occasionally giving air or light; usually with a wooden shutter instead of a pane of gla.s.s, S.

BOARDTREES, _s. pl._ A term used for the plank on which a corpse is stretched; S. B.

_To_ BOAST, BOIST, _v. a._ To threaten.

V. ~Boist~.

_To_ BOB, BAB, _v. n._ To dance, S.

_Herd._

BOB, _s._ Gust, blast.

V. ~Bub~.

BOB, _s._

1. A bunch; used as synon. with _cow_, S.

_Priests of Peblis._

2. The same word, p.r.o.nounced _bab_, is used for a bundle of flowers, a nosegay.

S. Fr. _bube_, a bunch; Isl. _bobbe_, a knot.

BOB, _s._ A mark, a but, S.; either q. a small bunch set up as a mark, or, from the sense of the E. v., something to strike at.

BOB, _s._ A taunt, a scoff, S. B.

Teut. _babb-en_, to prate; Isl. _komenn i bobba_, os correptum, _at bobsa_, babare (to bark,) canum vox est. Su. G. _babe_, sermo inconditus.

BOBBY, _s._ A grandfather, S. B.

_Ross._

BOBBYN, _s._ The seed-pod of birch, Loth.

Fr. _bubon_, a great bunch.

_Evergreen._

BOBBINS, _s._ The water-lily, S. B. _Bobbins_ are properly the seed-vessels.

V. ~Cambie-leaf~.

BOCE; Burel, Watson's Coll. ii. 26.

V. ~Boss~.

_To_ BOCK, _v. a._ To vomit.

V. ~Bok~.

BOCK-BLOOD, _s._ A spitting, or throwing up of blood.

_Polwart._

BOD, _s._ A person of small size, a term generally applied, somewhat contemptuously, to one who is dwarfish, although of full age, S.

_To_ BODE, _v. a._ To proffer, often as implying the idea of some degree of constraint. "He did na merely offer, but he _boded_ it on me;" S.

BODEN, _part. pa._ Preferred.

BODE, BOD, _s._ An offer made in order to a bargain, a proffer, S.

_Ramsay._