boodie Sc.
(ˈbuːdɪ)
[perh. ad. Gael. bodach ghost. But cf. bolly.]
A spectre, a hobgoblin.
| ? a 1700 Ballad, Baroune o' Gairtly in Smith Hist. Aberdeensh. (1875) I. 650 Nae gruesome gaist, nor black boodie Cud fleg that bold Baroune. 1785 Jrnl. fr. Lond. 6 in Poems Buchan Dial. (Jam.) About the time o' night that the boodies begin to gang. 1868 G. Macdonald R. Falconer I. 12 He rins as gin I war a boodie. |