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

Germ. butte; Ital. botte, id., whence E. butt. Su. G. byttia, situla, cupa; Teut. botte, id. dolium, orca, cupa.

To BOK, BOCK, v. a.
1. To vomit, S.
Gawan and Gol.
2. To reach, to incline to puke, S.
3. To belch, (eructare) S.

A. Bor. boke, bowk, to nauseate, to be ready to vomit; booac, to reach, to keck, ibid. Perhaps from A. S. bealc-an, eructare. It however has greater resemblance of puke, to which no etymon has been assigned.

BOK, BOCK, s. The act of reaching, S.
Cleland.

BOKEIK, s. Bopeep, a game.
Lyndsay.

BOKS, s. pl. "Corner teeth," Gl. Sibb.
Maitland Poems.

To BOLDIN, BOLDYN, v. n. To swell.
Douglas.

Boldin, Boulden, part. pa. swelled.

This is softened into bowdin, bowden, S. Often in the pret. and part. it is written bolnys, swells, (Doug. V.) and bolnyt. I hesitate whether these are contr. from boldinnys, boldinnyt, or the v. in another form, more nearly resembling Su. G. buln-a, Dan. bul-ner. Su. G. bul-na, bulg-ia, id. bolginn, swollen. Hence Isl. bilgia, Su. G. bolgia, a billow; because it is raised by the wind; and bolda, a boil, a tumour. Gael. builg-am to swell, builg, a blister.

BOLGAN LEAVES, Nipplewort, an herb, S. B. Lapsana communis, Linn.