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▪ I. bodle1 Sc.|ˈbɒd(ə)l, -ɔː-|
Also 7 bodel, bawdle, 8 boadle, 8–9 boddle.
[Reputed to be from the name of a mint-master Bothwell; but no documentary evidence is cited.]
A Scotch copper coin of the value of two pennies Scots, or (c 1600) one sixth of an English penny; the smallest coin; hence, like farthing, etc., in the phrase not to care a bodle.
1650A. B. Mutat. Polemo 12 Whom they valued not really at the estimation of 200000 Scotch bawdles. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. ii. 29/2 A Bodel, three of them makes an half penny English. c1730Burt Lett. N. Scotl. (1818) I. 42 The bridge is..maintained by a toll of a bodle. 1820Scott Abbot vi, It was not that I cared a brass bodle for his benison or malison either. 1834H. Miller Scenes & Leg. xix. (1857) 279 All the placks and boddles of the party.
▪ II. bodle2
obs. f. buddle, corn-marigold.
1557Tusser 100 Points Husb. lxxx, Bodle for barley, no weede there is such. |