bodach Ir.
(ˈbodəx)
Also -agh, 8 buddough.
[Gaelic and Ir. bodach.]
A peasant, churl; also (Sc.) a spectre.
| 1732 Swift Irish Eloquence His Neighbor Squire Doll is a meer Buddough. 1814 Scott Wav. III. xii. 157, I have seen the Bodach Glas [i.e., the Grey Spectre]. 1827 ― Highl. Widow i, Oh! then the mystery is out. There is a bogle or a brownie,..a bodach or a fairy, in the case? 1830 W. Carleton Traits Irish Peasantry I. 28 Hut! he's none iv yer proud, stingy, upsthart bodaghs. 1865 Dublin Rev. July 73 It admits of no doubt that the Gaelic is withering away... The coarse Bodach almost alone retains it as the language of common life. 1903 Westm. Gaz. 18 May 4/3 Father Dinneen's play ‘The Enchanted Well’ dealt with a rivalry in love between a rich ‘bodach’ and a poor poet. 1903 W. B. Yeats Hour-Glass 13, I met a bodach on the road yesterday. |