bon.

/bəʊ/

Etymology: Compare hobo n. and bozo n., but since it is recorded earlier bo is perhaps more likely to have been originally a shortening of boy.

slang. Chiefly U.S.

A familiar form of address.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun]

knightc893

knapec1000

knaveOE

knape childc1175

knave-childa1225

groom?c1225

knight-bairnc1275

pagec1300

mana1382

swainc1386

knave-bairna1400

little mana1425

man-childa1438

boy1440

little boya1475

lad1535

boykin1540

tomboya1556

urchin1556

loonc1560

kinchin-co(ve)1567

big boy1572

dandiprat1582

pricket1582

boy child1584

callant1597

suck-egg1609

nacketc1618

custrel1668

hospital-boy1677

whelp1710

laddie1721

charity-boy1723

pam-child1760

chappie1822

bo1825

boyo1835

wagling1837

shirttail boy1840

boysie1846

umfaan1852

nipper1859

yob1859

fellow-my-lad?1860

laddo1870

chokra1875

shegetz1885

spalpeen1891

spadger1899

bug1900

boychick1921

sonny boy1928

sonny1939

okie1943

lightie1946

outjie1961

oke1970

1825 W. N. Glascock Naval Sketch-bk. (1826) I. 148 Small helm bo—steady—ey-a.

1874 M. Clarke His Nat. Life I. v. 74 Half a gallon a day, bo', and no more.

1879 Punch 24 May 239/2 Traveller..‘Which is the—quickest Way—for me to get to the Station?’ Street Arab. ‘Wh' run bo'!’

1893 Chicago Record 14 July 11/3 An' den w'en ye meets one uv yer own kind ye feels like old pals, 'cause he calls ye ‘Ho’ an' ye calls him ‘Bo’. See?

a1905 ‘O. Henry’ Heart of West (1912) ix. 126 Why, say, 'Bo, I wish I had a dollar for every game of pinocle me and Heine has played on Sunday afternoons.

1916 Lincoln Evening News 1 Jan. in Dial. Notes 4 272 The swaggerest rag you can put on, bo, is one of the non-skid, full-dress shirt bosoms.

1919 Judge in Dial. Notes 4 272 The man who tells the bootblack ‘Keep the change, bo’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

† boadj.pron.

Forms: nominative and accusative masculine Old English begen, Middle English Orm. beȝȝen, Middle English bæien, beien(e, beine, beie, beye, Middle English baye, bayne, beyne; feminine, in Middle English common and neuter, Old English bá, Middle English ba, Middle English boa, Middle English bo, Middle English boo; neuter, Old English bu; Genitive. Old English beg(r)a, Middle English beira, Middle English beire, Middle English beyre, Middle English beyer; Dative. Old English bám, bǽm, Middle English ba.

Etymology: Old English begen , ba , bu , answer to Gothic nominative masculine bai , neuter ba , accusative masculine bans , dative baim , the stem being a Gothic ba- , Germanic bo- , which occurs also with a prefixed element in Sanskrit u-bha- , Greek ἀμ-ϕο- , Latin am-bo- , Old Slavonic o-bo- , both. In the other Germanic languages (except for the Old Norse genitive plural beggja ) this simple form is replaced by one with a suffixal extension: see both pron., adv., and adj.

Obsolete.

The earlier word for both pron., adv., and adj.

a. as simple adjective.

ΚΠ

c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 258 Micel sar on bam sidum.

a1250 Owl & Nightingale 990 Þat ut berste bo þin(e) eȝe.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 4889 A ba [c1300 Otho boþe] halue.

c1275 Laȝamon Brut 22588 His sones beine.

a1330 Syr Degarré 2 Maken him lesen hise stiropes bayne.

b. Modifying or in apposition to a pronoun.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > [noun] > both

the one and the otherOE

boc1000

eitherOE

bothlOE

either other1526

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > [adjective] > both

either bothOE

boc1000

botha1225

eitherc1300

outhera1450

c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xv. 14 Hig feallað begen on ænne pytt.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 103 Hi ba habbeð unafillendliche gredinesse.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 15091 Þatt hallȝhe frofre gast. Þatt cumeþþ off hemm beȝȝenn.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7391 Hali men heo weoren bæien [c1300 Otho beiene].

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 284 Seyn Edward and Aeldred, þat kynges were beye.

a1300 Floriz & Bl. 730 Ȝe schulle deie togadere bo.

c1325 Chron. Eng. 348 in J. Ritson Anc. Eng. Metrical Romanceës (1802) II. 284 Hy were beyne yfond.

c1330 Arth. & Merl. 1529 Ther thai gun to rest baye.

1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (1865) I. 419 There were Merlyns tweyne And prophecied alle beyne.

1450 Myrc 3 In to þe dyche þey fallen boo.

c. gen. plural oure, ȝure, here beyre: of us, you, them both. Cf. ure ealra, oure aller, etc. in alther adj.

ΚΠ

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 99 Þe feder, and his sune and heore beira gast.

a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1582 On thare beire nede.

c1300 Beket 2455 Bi here beire rede.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxi. 36 And deme here beyer ryght.

d. absol.

ΚΠ

OE Cynewulf Elene 888 He sona aras gaste gegearwod, geador bu samod lic ond sawl.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 50 Ba is haued sunne.

c1230 Hali Meid. 7 Godes brude & his freo dohter, for ba to gederes ha is.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8958 Þu scalt beien [c1300 Otho beiene] slæ þer Passent and Gillomar.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 143 Þat boa [c1300 Otho boþe] sculde fallen fader & his moder.

e. Frequently strengthened by the addition of two: Old English bá twá, butu, Middle English bo two, of all genders. [Compare Italian ambidue.]

ΚΠ

OE Genesis 765 Sorgedon ba twa, Adam and Eue.

a1100 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 871 Æðered and Ælfred his broðor..hi butu geflymdon.

a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 94 Heo sleateð a dun boatwo hore earen.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1200 Mid childe heo weren ba twa [c1300 Otho boþe two].

Draft additions June 2016

Preceding a determiner or possessive. Cf. both adj. 1b.

ΚΠ

eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) iv. xi. 108 Quintius Flaminius geniedde begen þa cyningas þæt hie sealdon hiera suna to gislum.

OE Andreas (1932) 1014 Syb wæs gemæne bam þam gebroðrum, blis edniwe.

OE Ælfric Old Test. Summary: Judges (Laud) xv.14 in S. J. Crawford Old Eng. Version of Heptateuch (1922) 411 Ða tobræd Samson begen his earmas, ðæt þa rapas toburston, þe he mid gebunden wæs.

lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Domitian A.viii) anno 1013 Hi worhtan þæt mæste yuel ðæt æni here don mihte; wende ða to Oxanafordan & swa to Winceastre, & ba ða burh abugan & gislodan.

?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 43 Ȝif þa ylda habbe, læt hym blod of bam þa foten byneoþan ancweowe [read ancleowe].

c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 202 Iesu cristes blod þet halheð ba þe oþre.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3738 Beiene þa [c1300 beine þe] eorles buȝen heom to-gaderes.

a1300 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Jesus Oxf.) (1935) l. 381 (MED) Ne scholde he vor bo [c1275 Calig. boþe] his eye So do, if he þe bet ne iseye.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

† bov.

Origin: An imitative or expressive formation.

Etymology: Imitative. Compare later bo int. With sense 1 compare moo v. and boo v. 1.

Obsolete. rare.

1. intransitive. To make a lowing noise comparable to that made by a cow. Cf. boo v. 1, boing n.¹

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [verb (intransitive)] > make sound

bellowc1000

lowOE

routc1475

boc1487

lout1530

mooc1550

mow1553

booa1555

blart1896

c1487 [implied in: J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iv. 239 They make such an hiddous loyng and boyng as it were in maner of a develish noise. (at boing n.)].

c1560 T. Becon Relikes of Rome sig. E.viii The greater part of the people for to heare them boing, bleating & yelling, flocke into the churches as into a common game place.

2. intransitive. Scottish. With on. Perhaps: to make a face at someone.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (intransitive)] > shout at

bo?1507

?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 48 Weil couth I..with a bukky in my cheik bo on him behind.

Phrases

Scottish. to bo a person's blanket: to reproach or criticize a person in the slightest. Only in negative constructions. Cf. to say bo to a person's blanket at bo int. Phrases 2, to say boo to a person's blanket at boo int. and n.¹ Phrases 1b.

ΚΠ

a1823 G. Beattie in John O'Arnha' & Other Poems (1826) 80 I can gae up throw a' the street, And nane gan bo' my blanket.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

† boconj.

Forms: In Old English–Middle English ba.

Etymology: The neuter or common form of bo adj. used with and . The transition to the conjunctional use is seen in bo adj. d, and in 1225 here. See both pron., adv., and adj.

Obsolete.

The earlier word for both pron., adv., and adj.

ΚΠ

a1225 Leg. Kath. 50 Poure ba & riche comen þer.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 20 Seggeð pater noster & aue Marie. babiforen & efter.

a1240 Sawles Warde in Lamb. Hom. 247 Ba wið eie ant wið luue.

a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 51 Þin werkes bueþ bo suete ant gode.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

† boint.

Forms: 1500s–1600s boe, 1500s–1800s bo, 1600s–1800s boh, 1600s bough.

Origin: An imitative or expressive formation.

Etymology: Imitative. Compare earlier bo v. and bo ho int.Compare classical Latin boāre, ancient Greek βοᾶν to cry aloud, roar, shout. N.E.D. (1887) gives the pronunciation as (bō^u) /bəʊ/.

Obsolete.

Representing an inarticulate spoken sound or exclamation, esp. one made abruptly in order to surprise or frighten (cf. boo int. 1).

ΚΠ

?1565 Smyth that forged New Dame sig. B.iv^v Speke now..And say ones bo.

1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer viii. 261 When a child cryes boh To fright his Nurse.

1649 T.B. Rebellion of Naples 54 They hold him by the nape of the neck, he spits in their face like a Cat, at last cryes Boh, and frights them.

1672 R. Wild Poetica Licentia in Let. Declar. Liberty Conscience 26 The Pope's Raw-head-and-bloody-bones cry Boh Behind the door!

1829 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. vi. 178 We start and are afraid when we hear one cry Boh!

1855 R. Browning Holy-Cross Day ii, in Men & Women II. 160 Boh, here's Barnabas!

Phrases

P1. to say bo to a goose (also occasionally battledore) and variants: to speak; esp. to speak up for oneself; to take a stand. Chiefly in negative constructions implying timidity. Cf. to say boo to a goose at boo int. and n.¹ Phrases 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] > speak up (with courage)

to say B (or Bo!) to a battledore1570

to say bo to a goose (also occasionally battledore)1588

1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 47 He is not able to say bo to a goose.

1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 118 The clergy of this time were..not able to say bo to a battledore.

1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? To Rdr. I could say..not so much as bough to a goose.

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. liv. 191 I could not say Boh to a goose.

1862 C. M. Yonge Countess Kate vii. 125 Dear me, Mary, can't you say bo to a goose!

1866 R. D. Blackmore Cradock Nowell (1883) xxx. 166 Bob could never say ‘bo’ to a gosling of the feminine gender.

†P2. Scottish. to say bo to a person's blanket and variants: to speak up; to challenge a person (cf. to say bo to a goose at Phrases 1); (later) to reproach or criticize a person (cf. to say boo to a person's blanket at boo int. and n.¹ Phrases 1b). Obsolete.

ΚΠ

c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 325 But bo to thair blanket, thay rode doun throw the Gallowget.

1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 154 He dare not say, Bo to your Blanket.

1722 W. Hamilton Life of Sir William Wallace xii. ii. 313 After that no Man had ought to say. Nor once durst give him, but a Saucie look, Or yet play bo, unto his Blanket Nook.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

> as lemmas

B.O.

B.O. n. body odour.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [noun] > fetid smells > body odour

body odour1885

B.O.1933

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > perspirations > [noun] > body odour

body odour1885

B.O.1933

1933 Sat. Evening Post 14 Jan. 91/3 Those ‘B.O.’ ads. I laughed at—is the joke on me?

1936 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood Ascent of F6 ii. iii. 96 And some I know have got B.O.: But these are not for me.

extracted from Bn.

n.1825

adj.pron.eOE

v.c1487

conj.a1225

int.?1565

as lemmas

单词	bo
释义	bon. /bəʊ/ Etymology: Compare hobo n. and bozo n., but since it is recorded earlier bo is perhaps more likely to have been originally a shortening of boy. slang. Chiefly U.S. A familiar form of address. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun] knightc893 knapec1000 knaveOE knape childc1175 knave-childa1225 groom?c1225 knight-bairnc1275 pagec1300 mana1382 swainc1386 knave-bairna1400 little mana1425 man-childa1438 boy1440 little boya1475 lad1535 boykin1540 tomboya1556 urchin1556 loonc1560 kinchin-co(ve)1567 big boy1572 dandiprat1582 pricket1582 boy child1584 callant1597 suck-egg1609 nacketc1618 custrel1668 hospital-boy1677 whelp1710 laddie1721 charity-boy1723 pam-child1760 chappie1822 bo1825 boyo1835 wagling1837 shirttail boy1840 boysie1846 umfaan1852 nipper1859 yob1859 fellow-my-lad?1860 laddo1870 chokra1875 shegetz1885 spalpeen1891 spadger1899 bug1900 boychick1921 sonny boy1928 sonny1939 okie1943 lightie1946 outjie1961 oke1970 1825 W. N. Glascock Naval Sketch-bk. (1826) I. 148 Small helm bo—steady—ey-a. 1874 M. Clarke His Nat. Life I. v. 74 Half a gallon a day, bo', and no more. 1879 Punch 24 May 239/2 Traveller..‘Which is the—quickest Way—for me to get to the Station?’ Street Arab. ‘Wh' run bo'!’ 1893 Chicago Record 14 July 11/3 An' den w'en ye meets one uv yer own kind ye feels like old pals, 'cause he calls ye ‘Ho’ an' ye calls him ‘Bo’. See? a1905 ‘O. Henry’ Heart of West (1912) ix. 126 Why, say, 'Bo, I wish I had a dollar for every game of pinocle me and Heine has played on Sunday afternoons. 1916 Lincoln Evening News 1 Jan. in Dial. Notes 4 272 The swaggerest rag you can put on, bo, is one of the non-skid, full-dress shirt bosoms. 1919 Judge in Dial. Notes 4 272 The man who tells the bootblack ‘Keep the change, bo’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018). † boadj.pron. Forms: nominative and accusative masculine Old English begen, Middle English Orm. beȝȝen, Middle English bæien, beien(e, beine, beie, beye, Middle English baye, bayne, beyne; feminine, in Middle English common and neuter, Old English bá, Middle English ba, Middle English boa, Middle English bo, Middle English boo; neuter, Old English bu; Genitive. Old English beg(r)a, Middle English beira, Middle English beire, Middle English beyre, Middle English beyer; Dative. Old English bám, bǽm, Middle English ba. Etymology: Old English begen , ba , bu , answer to Gothic nominative masculine bai , neuter ba , accusative masculine bans , dative baim , the stem being a Gothic ba- , Germanic bo- , which occurs also with a prefixed element in Sanskrit u-bha- , Greek ἀμ-ϕο- , Latin am-bo- , Old Slavonic o-bo- , both. In the other Germanic languages (except for the Old Norse genitive plural beggja ) this simple form is replaced by one with a suffixal extension: see both pron., adv., and adj. Obsolete. The earlier word for both pron., adv., and adj. a. as simple adjective. ΚΠ c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 258 Micel sar on bam sidum. a1250 Owl & Nightingale 990 Þat ut berste bo þin(e) eȝe. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 4889 A ba [c1300 Otho boþe] halue. c1275 Laȝamon Brut 22588 His sones beine. a1330 Syr Degarré 2 Maken him lesen hise stiropes bayne. b. Modifying or in apposition to a pronoun. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > [noun] > both the one and the otherOE boc1000 eitherOE bothlOE either other1526 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > [adjective] > both either bothOE boc1000 botha1225 eitherc1300 outhera1450 c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xv. 14 Hig feallað begen on ænne pytt. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 103 Hi ba habbeð unafillendliche gredinesse. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 15091 Þatt hallȝhe frofre gast. Þatt cumeþþ off hemm beȝȝenn. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7391 Hali men heo weoren bæien [c1300 Otho beiene]. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 284 Seyn Edward and Aeldred, þat kynges were beye. a1300 Floriz & Bl. 730 Ȝe schulle deie togadere bo. c1325 Chron. Eng. 348 in J. Ritson Anc. Eng. Metrical Romanceës (1802) II. 284 Hy were beyne yfond. c1330 Arth. & Merl. 1529 Ther thai gun to rest baye. 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (1865) I. 419 There were Merlyns tweyne And prophecied alle beyne. 1450 Myrc 3 In to þe dyche þey fallen boo. c. gen. plural oure, ȝure, here beyre: of us, you, them both. Cf. ure ealra, oure aller, etc. in alther adj. ΚΠ c1175 Lamb. Hom. 99 Þe feder, and his sune and heore beira gast. a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1582 On thare beire nede. c1300 Beket 2455 Bi here beire rede. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxi. 36 And deme here beyer ryght. d. absol. ΚΠ OE Cynewulf Elene 888 He sona aras gaste gegearwod, geador bu samod lic ond sawl. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 50 Ba is haued sunne. c1230 Hali Meid. 7 Godes brude & his freo dohter, for ba to gederes ha is. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8958 Þu scalt beien [c1300 Otho beiene] slæ þer Passent and Gillomar. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 143 Þat boa [c1300 Otho boþe] sculde fallen fader & his moder. e. Frequently strengthened by the addition of two: Old English bá twá, butu, Middle English bo two, of all genders. [Compare Italian ambidue.] ΚΠ OE Genesis 765 Sorgedon ba twa, Adam and Eue. a1100 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 871 Æðered and Ælfred his broðor..hi butu geflymdon. a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 94 Heo sleateð a dun boatwo hore earen. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1200 Mid childe heo weren ba twa [c1300 Otho boþe two]. Draft additions June 2016 Preceding a determiner or possessive. Cf. both adj. 1b. ΚΠ eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) iv. xi. 108 Quintius Flaminius geniedde begen þa cyningas þæt hie sealdon hiera suna to gislum. OE Andreas (1932) 1014 Syb wæs gemæne bam þam gebroðrum, blis edniwe. OE Ælfric Old Test. Summary: Judges (Laud) xv.14 in S. J. Crawford Old Eng. Version of Heptateuch (1922) 411 Ða tobræd Samson begen his earmas, ðæt þa rapas toburston, þe he mid gebunden wæs. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Domitian A.viii) anno 1013 Hi worhtan þæt mæste yuel ðæt æni here don mihte; wende ða to Oxanafordan & swa to Winceastre, & ba ða burh abugan & gislodan. ?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 43 Ȝif þa ylda habbe, læt hym blod of bam þa foten byneoþan ancweowe [read ancleowe]. c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 202 Iesu cristes blod þet halheð ba þe oþre. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3738 Beiene þa [c1300 beine þe] eorles buȝen heom to-gaderes. a1300 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Jesus Oxf.) (1935) l. 381 (MED) Ne scholde he vor bo [c1275 Calig. boþe] his eye So do, if he þe bet ne iseye. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † bov. Origin: An imitative or expressive formation. Etymology: Imitative. Compare later bo int. With sense 1 compare moo v. and boo v. 1. Obsolete. rare. 1. intransitive. To make a lowing noise comparable to that made by a cow. Cf. boo v. 1, boing n.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [verb (intransitive)] > make sound bellowc1000 lowOE routc1475 boc1487 lout1530 mooc1550 mow1553 booa1555 blart1896 c1487 [implied in: J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iv. 239 They make such an hiddous loyng and boyng as it were in maner of a develish noise. (at boing n.)]. c1560 T. Becon Relikes of Rome sig. E.viii The greater part of the people for to heare them boing, bleating & yelling, flocke into the churches as into a common game place. 2. intransitive. Scottish. With on. Perhaps: to make a face at someone. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (intransitive)] > shout at bo?1507 ?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 48 Weil couth I..with a bukky in my cheik bo on him behind. Phrases Scottish. to bo a person's blanket: to reproach or criticize a person in the slightest. Only in negative constructions. Cf. to say bo to a person's blanket at bo int. Phrases 2, to say boo to a person's blanket at boo int. and n.¹ Phrases 1b. ΚΠ a1823 G. Beattie in John O'Arnha' & Other Poems (1826) 80 I can gae up throw a' the street, And nane gan bo' my blanket. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2019). † boconj. Forms: In Old English–Middle English ba. Etymology: The neuter or common form of bo adj. used with and . The transition to the conjunctional use is seen in bo adj. d, and in 1225 here. See both pron., adv., and adj. Obsolete. The earlier word for both pron., adv., and adj. ΚΠ a1225 Leg. Kath. 50 Poure ba & riche comen þer. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 20 Seggeð pater noster & aue Marie. babiforen & efter. a1240 Sawles Warde in Lamb. Hom. 247 Ba wið eie ant wið luue. a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 51 Þin werkes bueþ bo suete ant gode. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † boint. Forms: 1500s–1600s boe, 1500s–1800s bo, 1600s–1800s boh, 1600s bough. Origin: An imitative or expressive formation. Etymology: Imitative. Compare earlier bo v. and bo ho int.Compare classical Latin boāre, ancient Greek βοᾶν to cry aloud, roar, shout. N.E.D. (1887) gives the pronunciation as (bō^u) /bəʊ/. Obsolete. Representing an inarticulate spoken sound or exclamation, esp. one made abruptly in order to surprise or frighten (cf. boo int. 1). ΚΠ ?1565 Smyth that forged New Dame sig. B.iv^v Speke now..And say ones bo. 1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer viii. 261 When a child cryes boh To fright his Nurse. 1649 T.B. Rebellion of Naples 54 They hold him by the nape of the neck, he spits in their face like a Cat, at last cryes Boh, and frights them. 1672 R. Wild Poetica Licentia in Let. Declar. Liberty Conscience 26 The Pope's Raw-head-and-bloody-bones cry Boh Behind the door! 1829 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. vi. 178 We start and are afraid when we hear one cry Boh! 1855 R. Browning Holy-Cross Day ii, in Men & Women II. 160 Boh, here's Barnabas! Phrases P1. to say bo to a goose (also occasionally battledore) and variants: to speak; esp. to speak up for oneself; to take a stand. Chiefly in negative constructions implying timidity. Cf. to say boo to a goose at boo int. and n.¹ Phrases 1a. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] > speak up (with courage) to say B (or Bo!) to a battledore1570 to say bo to a goose (also occasionally battledore)1588 1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 47 He is not able to say bo to a goose. 1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 118 The clergy of this time were..not able to say bo to a battledore. 1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? To Rdr. I could say..not so much as bough to a goose. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. liv. 191 I could not say Boh to a goose. 1862 C. M. Yonge Countess Kate vii. 125 Dear me, Mary, can't you say bo to a goose! 1866 R. D. Blackmore Cradock Nowell (1883) xxx. 166 Bob could never say ‘bo’ to a gosling of the feminine gender. †P2. Scottish. to say bo to a person's blanket and variants: to speak up; to challenge a person (cf. to say bo to a goose at Phrases 1); (later) to reproach or criticize a person (cf. to say boo to a person's blanket at boo int. and n.¹ Phrases 1b). Obsolete. ΚΠ c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 325 But bo to thair blanket, thay rode doun throw the Gallowget. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 154 He dare not say, Bo to your Blanket. 1722 W. Hamilton Life of Sir William Wallace xii. ii. 313 After that no Man had ought to say. Nor once durst give him, but a Saucie look, Or yet play bo, unto his Blanket Nook. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2020). > as lemmas B.O. B.O. n. body odour. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [noun] > fetid smells > body odour body odour1885 B.O.1933 the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > perspirations > [noun] > body odour body odour1885 B.O.1933 1933 Sat. Evening Post 14 Jan. 91/3 Those ‘B.O.’ ads. I laughed at—is the joke on me? 1936 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood Ascent of F6 ii. iii. 96 And some I know have got B.O.: But these are not for me. extracted from Bn. < n.1825adj.pron.eOEv.c1487conj.a1225int.?1565 as lemmas
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