† ˈbowbert, -art, -ard Obs. Sc.
[app. a. OF. bobert ‘stupid fellow, lout’ (Godef. quotes ‘li fous bouviers li fous bobers’, and ‘c'est un bobers, un soz noez’): cf. Swiss Romance bobet ‘sot, bête’.]
A sluggish fellow, a dull lout. Also attrib. or as adj. (Only in Gawin Douglas.)
| 1513 Douglas æneis i. vii. 33 Fra their hife Expellis the bowbart [v.r. buobert] beist, the faynt drone be. Ibid. xi. xiv. 18 Quhou happynnis this..That ȝe sal evir sa doillit and bowbartis [v.r. bowbardis] be Onwrokyn sik iniuris to suffyr heir. |