† bonagh Obs.
Also bonogh, bonough, bownogh.
[Irish: O'Reilly has buana a billeted soldier, also buanadh a soldier; Keting in O'Curry II. 379 buanadh ‘permanent soldiers of the Kings of Erinn’.]
A permanent soldier.
| 1600 J. Dymmok Ireland (1843) 51 [Tyrone's] wealthe..wilbe in shorte tyme exhausted, by the maynteyninge of his Bonaghs. 1633 T. Stafford Pac. Hib. iii. (1821) 43 Three hundred were Bonoughes, the best furnished men for the warre. |