BOBBERY. Noise, tumult, disturbance-a row. I have certainly heard this word several times lately out of true Suffolk mouths, but cannot think of it otherwise than of recent import; for it is in common and extensive use in India in exactly the same sense. It is there used in somewhat of a quaint vulgar way; and is not a dictionary word, though its derivation may be easily traced in the languages of the East. BOD. Bid-bade-offered. "I bod em tew shillings for't." So, rod for rid. In Scottish bode, and in German, bot, have the same meaning.

BODGE. Doing any thing unskilfully, or in an unworkmanlike manner. Bodgin-bunglingly. "Dew it kiender tidily now, an dont make a bodge ont." Thus Shakespeare

With this we charged again; but, out, alas!
We bodged again, as I have seen a man
With bootless labour swim against the tide.

K. Hen. 6. p. 3. I. 4.

We also use botch, which is I suppose, a varied pronunciation. So does Shakespeare.-Dr. Johnson thinks bodge in the above passage a misprint for budge. But in Suffolk we at once recognize it as an expressive appropriate word.

Bulk-body-mass.

It is not well mended-it is but botched. T. of A. IV. 3. BOKE. "The boke o' the load"—the swell or protuberant part of a load of corn in the straw, or of hay. "Great boke of corn” means much straw compared with the probable produce of grain. "Ta rise well according to the boke" means that the mass or bulk of straw yields well at the threshing.

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In Ray's Proverbs is this

Said the chevin to the trout

My head's worth all thy bouk. p. 40.

The chevin, Cocker says, is the "Chub-a fish with a great head."

Bowk is used in Scottish for bulk and body. See Glossary to the Antiquary. And in Tales of my Landlord, 3rd S. II. 229, this

phrase occurs "BonAnd again in p. 248.

nie bowk of a man's body." "Down he fell, wi a his bowk abune me." In Jameison many similar meanings are given of Bouk and Buik. He derives them from the Teutonic beuck, truncus corporis.

It appears to be archaic-for Rowley (i. e. Chatterton) in the Tragedy of Goddwyn, uses it in the sense of body,

Goe to-goe to-you do ne understonde--

They yeave mee lyffe; and did mie bowkie kepe. Perhaps Swift's "beggar's brat on bulk begot "— refers rather to the exposed boards in front of stalls or shops. Bulk-heads on ship board are the divisions between cabins, store-rooms, or different parts of the ship: but I do not know that boards of any description are any where called baulks, or by any name approaching to the sound of the word now under consideration. See BAUK.

Nares has "Bulk, body-from the Dutch bulcke, thorax."

But smother'd it within my panting bulk. Rich. 3. L. 4.

BOLE. The stem of a tree. "We seem to have localisms for divers parts of this glory of rusticity, As well as bole we call the stem or trunk the right

up-the large branches wrongs—the smaller branches chatter-bushes-the lower small branches washboughs-the crooked parts, crotches-short projecting stunted shoots, spars-knots, biests-the bark, pill -branches lopped off, stowens.-Among his north country words Ray has "The Boll of a tree, the body of a tree, as a thorn-boll, &c. Bolling trees. is used in all countries for pollard trees, whose heads and branches are cut off and only the bodies left." E. W. p. 19. See POLLARD.

BONNKA. Large-strapping-applied to young persons, especially girls. Similar to Swacken and Whacken. "What a Bonnka that there mawtha dew grow."

Can this phrase in the following quotation from the old marriage ceremony used in and before the time of Richard the 2d, have any reference to Bonnka in its Suffolk sense? "Iche N. take the M. to my weddid husbond to havn and to holden" &e. "for bettur for wors" &c. "to be bonch and buxom at bed and at borde, tyl dethe" &c.

BOODLE. The corn marygold-Chrysanthemum fagetum. It is a great plague to farmers-the greatest, according to Tusser, in these lines

The May-weed doth burn, and the thistle doth fret;
The fitches pull downward both rye and the wheat;
The brake and the cockle, be noisome too much,
Yet like unto boodle, no weed there is such. p. 152.

The May-weed is still known by that name.
BOOLK. See BULLOCK.

BOONCH A bunch. So poonch for punch. In

compensation we say brum for broom; ruff for roof,

-&c. See BUTES.

BOONDLE. A bundle.

BOPP. To bow the head-stoop. “I sahGran-paa! ded yeow see that there guse bop under the gate wah?"-"Aah-Jim baw."

Bop is also father-as it is likewise (Bap, or Bawp) in some East India dialects.

BORDER. This would, perhaps, be the regular way of spelling the word, by which we often designate abuse; but as it is commonly called Bawda, I have given the explanation under that word.

BOSKY. Tipsy.

BOTCH. See BODGE.

BOUD. Rhyming to loud, a weevil. The insect that injures grain and flower and malt in mills and granaries. Such grain is said to he boud eaten. In Rees' Cyclop. I find "Bouds-the epithet under which the weevil is distinguished in some counties," taken perhaps from Ray, "Bouds, i.e. weevils, an insect breeding in malt. Norf. Suff. Essex." E. W. p. 71. Thus in Tusser

Good bread-corn and drink-corn, full twenty weeks kept,
Is better than new, that at harvest is reapt :
But foisty the bread-corn, and bowd-eaten malt,

For health or for profit, find noisome thou shalt."

p. 40. Best dried, best speeds-Ill kept bowd breeds. 258. Long kept in ill soller (undoubted thou shalt) Through bowds without number, lose quickly thy malt." 259.

Soller formerly was in common use, and meant an upper appartment—a loft—it has been derived from Solarium.

BOUT. A turn in ploughing a bout, a furrow, or rather the operation of making a furrow. "Four bouts to a yard” means that the plough moves or turns over nine inches of soil in each bout.de

Some ancient people wrote in the backward and forward manner-usually described by the familiar operation in husbandry "from right to left and from left to right as ploughmen trace their furrows"This method was in use among the ancient Greeks, who called it Boustrophedon Bovorpondov. It is said to have been disused about 450 B. C.

Words were sometimes likewise read both ways→ hence Dipuc was a name of Cupid. The most perfect specimen of Boustrophedon writing now 'existing is the Sigean inscription discovered in the 'l'road by Consul Sherard, and published by Dr. Chishull, with an elaborate commentary.

Any one desirous to trace the descent of the bout of the modern Suffolk ploughman, from the Boustrophedon of the ancient Greeks, may consult Plutarch in Solon Vit.-Aul. Gel. Noc. Att. Lib. 2. c. 12. Astle on writing pp. 70. 74. De Vaines Dict. Raison.. de Diplom: Horne's Bibliog. I. 36. 107.

BOWRE OF BOWER. An arbour-being made of boughs-sometimes Bowrie. Nares, remarks that bowre formerly meant a chamber-Rosamond's bower was such; but the word seems now not to be used in that sense. BRACKLE.

BRACKLY. Ripe corn, especially wheat, is said to brackle, and to "fare brackly," when, from having quickly ripened, or from other