An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 44
/An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 44
Su. G. _baang_, tumult, Isl. _bang-a_, to strike.
_To_ BANG _out_, _v. a._ To draw out hastily, S.
_Ross._
BANG, _s._
1. An action expressive of haste; as, He _cam wi a bang_, S.
_In a bang_, suddenly, S.
_Ross._
2. A great number, a crowd, S.
_Ramsay._
_To_ BANG, _v. n._ To push off with a boat, in salmon-fishing, without having seen any fish in the channel, Aberd.
_Law Case._
BANGEISTER, BANGSTER, _s._
1. A violent and disorderly person, who regards no law but his own will.
_Maitland Poems._
2. A braggart, a bully, S.
_Ross._
3. A loose woman, Clydes.
Isl. _bang-a_, to strike, _bang-ast_, to run on one with violence.
BANGSTRIE, _s._ Strength of hand, violence to another in his person or property.
From _Bangster_.
_Acts Ja. VI._
BANKERS, _s. pl._ Apparently the same with ~Bancouris~, q. v.
BANKROUT, _s._ A bankrupt.
_Skene._
Fr. _banquerout_, Ital. _bancorotto_, Teut. _banckrote_, id.
BANNOCK, BONNOCK, BANNO, _s._ A cake, baked of dough in a pretty wet state, and toasted on a girdle, S.
_Bannatyne Poems._
Ir. _boinneog_, _bunna_, Gael. _bonnach_, a cake.
_Bear-bannock_, _s._ A cake of this description, baked of barley-meal, S.
_Ritson._
BANNOCK-FLUKE, _s._ The name given to the genuine turbot, from its flat form as resembling a cake, S.
_Stat. Acc._
BANNOCK-HIVE, _s._ Corpulence, induced by eating plentifully, S.
V. ~Hive~.
_Morison._
BANRENTE, _s._ A banneret.
_Acts Ja. I._
BANSTICKLE, _s._ The three-spined stickle-back, gasterosteus aculeatus, Linn, S.
_Barry._
BANWIN, _s._ As many reapers as may be served by one _bandster_, S.
Fife, S. A.
A. S. _band_, vinculum, and _win_, labor.
BAP, _s._
1. A thick cake baked in the oven, generally with yeast, whether made of oat-meal, barley-meal, flour of wheat, or a mixture, S.