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

BOUGARS, s. pl. Cross spars, forming part of the roof of a cottage, used instead of laths, on which wattling or twigs are placed, and above these divots, and then the straw or thatch, S.
Chr. Kirk.

Lincolns. bulkar, a beam; Dan. biaelke, pl. bielcker, beams. Su. G. bialke, a small rafter, tigillum, in Westro-Goth. is written bolkur.

BOUK, BUIK, s.
1. The trunk of the body, as distinguished from the head or extremity, S.
A bouk of tauch, all the tallow taken out of an ox or cow, S.

Germ. bauch von talge, id.

A bouk-louse, one that has been bred about the body.

Teut. beuck, truncus corporis.

2. The whole body of man, or carcase of a beast, S.
Douglas.
3. The body, as contradistinguished from the soul.
R. Bruce.
4. Size, stature, S. bulk; Boukth, bulk, Gl. Lancash.
J. Nicol.
5. The greatest share, the principal part, S.
Cleland.

To BOUK, v. n. To bulk, S.

Hence,

BOUKIT, BOWKIT, part. pa.
1. Large, bulky; S.
Douglas.
2. Boukit and muckle-boukit are used in a peculiar sense; as denoting the appearance which a pregnant woman makes, after her shape begins to alter.