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

BODLE, BODDLE, s. A copper coin, of the value of two pennies Scots, or the third part of an English penny.
Rudd.

These pieces are said to have been denominated from a mint-master of the name of Bothwell.

BODWORD, BODWART, BODWORDE, s. A message, S. B.
Wallace.

A. S. boda, a messenger, and word. Su. G. Isl. bodword is edictum, mandatum.

BOETINGS, BUITINGS, s. pl. Half-boots, or leathern spatterdashes.
Dunbar.

Teut. boten schoen, calceus rusticus e crudo corio; Kilian.

BOGGARDE, s. A bugbear.
Rollocke.

A. Bor. boggart, a spectre. C. B. bwg, larva, terriculamentum.

BOGILL, BOGLE, s.
1. A spectre, a hobgoblin, S. A. Bor.
Douglas.
2. A scarecrow, a bugbear, S. synon. [doolie], [cow]; being used in both senses.

C. B. bugul, fear, bwgwly, to frighten.