▪ I. † boud Obs. or dial.
Also 5 boude, 5–7 bowde, 6 bowd, 8 bood, 9 bude.
[Of unknown origin; identity with OE. budda, ME. bod(de in scharnboddes dung-beetles, has been conjectured.]
A weevil; an insect or worm which breeds in malt, etc. Also in comb., as boud-eaten.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 46 Bowde, malte-worme, gurgulio. 1580 Tusser Husb. (1878) 52 Bowd eaten malt, for health or for profit, find noysome thou shalt. 1691 Ray S. & E. Country Wds., Bouds, weevils, an insect breeding in malt. 1713 Lond. & Countr. Brew. iii. (ed. 2) 222 In some Counties they call it Bood, others Pope, and Whool. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Bude, an old name for the biscuit-weevil. |
▪ II. boud
= behoved: see bus v.