An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

Bladdy, adj. Inconstant, unsettled; applied to the weather. "A bladdy day," is one alternately fair and foul.

BLAD, s. A dirty spot on the cheek, S. perhaps q. the effect of a blow, Gael. blad, however, is synon.

BLADARIE, s. Perhaps, vain glory.
R. Bruce.

Teut. blaeterije, jactantia, vaniloquentia.

BLADDERAND, BLADDRAND
V. [Blether].

BLADE, s. The leaf of a tree, S.

A. S. blaed, bled; Su. G. Isl. Belg. blad, Germ. blat, Alem. plat, id.; perhaps the part. pa. of A. S. blew-an, blow-an, florere, to bud, to burgeon; blaewed, q. what is blowed, or shot forth; just as Franc. bluat, flos, is from bly-en, florere.

BLADOCH, BLEDOCH, BLADDA, s. Butter-milk, S. B.
Bannatyne Poems.

Ir. bladhach, Gael. blath-ach, id. C. B. blith, milk in general.

BLADRY, s. Expl. "trumpery."
Kelly.