An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 90

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, Watsons 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._