The Bible in Spain Volume II Part 23

BATUSCHCA, BATUSHKA. _Russ._ Little father. A term of endearment or familiar address, something like the Span. _tio_, uncle.

BEBER. _Span._ and _Port._ To drink.

BECORESH. _Hebr._ I.e. _Epikores_ = Epicurus, selected by Jewish writers as a type of insolent atheism.

BEDEYA. _Arab._ An open waistcoat. More correctly, _bad'iyya_.

BELAD. _Hebr._ In the power of.

BELED. _Arab._ Country. Also _balad_.

BELLOTA. _Span._ An acorn. The Portuguese _bolota_; Arab, _balut_.

BEN, plur. BENI. _Hebr._ and _Arab._ Son.

BENDITO. _Span._ and _Port._ Blessed, praised.

BENG, BENGUE, BENGUI. _Rom._ The devil; also any demon, or evil spirit.

P. ii. 407; M. vii. 19. As to the meaning, frog or toad, see G. i. 118.

BERAKA. _Hebr._ A blessing.

BESTI, BESTIS. _Rom._ A seat, chair, or saddle. P. ii. 428; M. vii.

20. Borrow, however, seems to use it as a slang form of the following.

BESTIA. _Span._ An animal. "You brute!"

BIRDOCHE. _Rom._ Used by Borrow in ch. ix. for a stage-coach or _galera_, q.v. It is probably connected with _bedo_, _berdo_, a cart.

Z. ii. * 17. Eng. Rom. _vardo_. See P. ii. 80; A. 68; M. viii. 96.

BOCA. _Span._ and _Port._ Mouth.

BODA, BODAS. _Span._ and _Port._ Marriage, a wedding.

BOGAMANTE, BOGAVANTE. _Span._ The slang name for a large lobster; orig.

the stroke-oar of a galley; _bogar_ = to row, _avante_ = in front.

BOHeMIEN. _Fr._ A gypsy.

BOLOTA. _Port._ (_Span._ BELLOTA.) An acorn.

BOLSA. _Span._ and _Port._ (1) A purse. (2) The Exchange.

BOMBARDo. _Rom._ A lion. Used also of the gulf usually called the Gulf of Lyons, but in French La Golfe du Lion, or "Gulf of the Lion," from its stormy water. Lyons on the Rhone may have given the English, but certainly not the French, name to the bay. P. ii. 432.

BONANZA. _Span._ Fair weather. See note, ii. 273.

BONITO. _Span._ and _Port._ Pretty.

BORRACHO. _Span._ and _Port._ A drunkard. _Borracha_ is a wine-skin, or leathern bottle. Hence Shakespeare's _Borachio_.

BORRICO. _Span._ Dimin. of _Burro_, an a.s.s.

BOTA. _Span._ A leather wine-bottle or bag; usually made of the skin of a pig for storing purposes, of goatskin for travelling. A gla.s.s bottle is called _frasco_ or _botella_.

BRASERO. _Span._ Brazier; bra.s.s or copper pan to hold live coals.

BRETIMA, BRETEMA, BRETOMA. _Gal._ A low-lying mist or fog. When thick and damp it is called-also in Galician-_mexona_.

BRIBON, BRIBONAZO. _Span._ A vagrant, vagabond, or impostor. The termination in _bribonazo_ does not express action, as in such words as _calmazo_, q.v., but augmentation.

BRIb.o.n.e.rIA. _Span._ Knavery, rascality.

BROA. _Port._ and _Gal._ BARONA. _Span._ and _Gal._ BRONA. _Gal._ A bread made of a mixture of maize (2 parts), rye (4), millet (1), and panic-gra.s.s (1).

BROTOBORO. _Rom._ First. Grk. p??t??. _Brotorbo_, J.

BRUJO or BRUXO. _Span._, _Port._, and _Gal._ A sorcerer, or wizard.

BUCKRA. _Arab._ _Bikr_, a virgin; used (ii. 357) for the Blessed Virgin Mary.

BUENO. _Span._ Good. _Buenas noches_, "good night."

BUFA. _Rom._ A manger, crib. P. ii. 433.

BUL, BULLaTI. _Rom._ The _a.n.u.s_. P. ii. 422.

BURRA. _Span._ and _Port._ Jacka.s.s; she-a.s.s.

BUSNo. _Rom._ A man who is not a gypsy, a Gentile. P. ii. 434; Pp.

172; M. vii. 26.

CA. _Span._ An abbreviated form of CARAJO, _q.v._

CABALGADURA. _Span._ A sumpter horse or mule; beast of burden.

CABALLEJO, or CABALLUELO. _Span._ Pony.

CABALLERIA. _Span._ Is used either of a single horse, mule, or a.s.s used for riding, as the Fr. _monture_, or for a number of such beasts together. The word in the plural also signifies chivalry or knighthood.

CABALLERO. _Span._ Lit. a cavalier, but constantly used either as a mode of polite address, "Sir," or in speaking of a gentleman, whether mounted or on foot.

CABAnA. _Span._ (1) A shepherd's hut or cabin. (2) A flock, or a.s.semblage of flocks, of sheep, under the charge of a _mayoral_, driven to and from the wild pasture lands of Estremadura. See note, i. 146.

CACHARRO. _Span._ A coa.r.s.e earthen pan or pot.

CACHAS. _Rom._ Shears, scissors. Z. i. 244; P. ii. 99; _cachais_, R.