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单词 boodie
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Brit. /ˈbuːdi/, U.S. /ˈbudi/, Scottish English /ˈbudɪ/
Forms: 1700s– boodie, 1800s body, 1800s boody.
Origin: Probably a borrowing from Scottish Gaelic. Etymon: Scottish Gaelic bodach.
Etymology: Probably < Scottish Gaelic bodach spectre (see bodach n.), with alteration of the second syllable after -y suffix6. Perhaps influenced by e.g. bolly n., bogy n.1, or Scots bo, bu hobgoblin, although these are all first attested later.
Scottish. Now rare.
An imaginary evil or frightening spirit or creature; a spectre, a phantom; a bogeyman.Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records the word as still in use in Buchan and Aberdeenshire in 1935.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > imp, goblin, or hobgoblin
thursec725
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puckleOE
goblina1350
hurlewaynes kin1399
Hoba1500
bogle?1507
chimera?1521
hobgoblin1530
chyppynutie?1553
bearbug1560
boggard1570
bugbear?c1570
empusa1572
puckerelc1580
puck bug1582
imp1584
urchin1584
fear-babea1586
hob-thrush1590
hodge-poker1598
lar1598
poker1598
bogle-bo1603
mormo1605
foliot1621
mormolukee1624
buggle-boo1625
pug1631
black man1656
feind1659
Tom Poker1673
duende1691
boodie?a1700
worricow1711
bolly1724
Tom Po1744
fleying1811
pooka1824
booger1827
alp1828
boll1847
bogy1857
beastie1867
boogie1880
shag boy1882
?a1700 Ballad, Baroune o' Gairtly in A. Smith New Hist. Aberdeenshire (1875) I. 650 Nae gruesome gaist, nor black boodie Cud fleg that bold Baroune.
1785 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth 6 in Select Coll. Poems Buchan Dial. About the time o' night that the boodies begin to gang.
1868 G. MacDonald Robert Falconer I. 12 He rins as gin I war a boodie.
1890 J. Kerr Reminisc. Wanderer I. 91 Some body or boodie, o' some kin' or ither, Had come roun' the way, an' wi' nae mickle swither, By them frae the shambles the carcase was torn.
1901 G. Burnett & J. Allardyce Family of Burnett of Leys ii. 94 He seems to have been a kind-hearted, benevolent man, with..some ludicrous peculiarities, including..what was locally called ‘boodie fear’, a dread of ghosts.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

boodien.2

Brit. /ˈbuːdi/, U.S. /ˈbudi/, Australian English /ˈbuːdi/
Forms: 1800s boordee, 1800s–1900s boodee, 1800s– boodie, 1800s– burdi (rare), 1900s– boody, 1900s– boudie.
Origin: A borrowing from Nyungar. Etymon: Nyungar burdi.
Etymology: < Nyungar (Perth–Albany region) burdi.The origin of the form in quot. 1840 is uncertain; it may reflect a variant of the Nyungar word.
Originally Australian.
More fully boodie rat. A burrowing bettong, Bettongia lesueur, formerly found throughout mainland Australia but now considered rare or extinct except on islands off the coast of Western Australia.The status of quot. 1840 is uncertain: see note in etymology.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [noun] > family Macropodidae > rat-kangaroo
kangaroo-rat1788
boodie1842
1840 Hooker's Jrnl. Bot. 2 362 The native Burdit also burrows in the ground or lives in holes in the rocks.]
1842 J. Gould Birds Austral. (1848) II. Pl. 12 This bird chooses for its nest the deserted hole of either the Dalgyte (Perameles lagotis) or the Boodee (a species of Bettongia).
1863 J. Gould Mammals Austral. II. Pl. 64 Hypsiprymnus (Bettongia) Lesueuri..Boor-dee... The Boor-dee is exclusively a nocturnal feeder, and..one of the most destructive animals to the garden of the settler in Western Australia.
1897 L. Lindley-Cowen West Austral. Settler's Guide 33 Boodie rats..do some damage among the fruit trees and cereal crops.
1924 D. H. Lawrence & M. L. Skinner Boy in Bush vii. 96 Little hunts of wallabies or bandicoots or bungarras, or boody-rats.
1963 New Scientist 3 Jan. 12 Boodies apparently emit a series of grunts and chuckles when chased.
1975 R. Beilby Brown Land Crying 271 The orange-tinted, calcined earth was stamped with the prints of wallabies and boodie rats.
2011 Countryman (W. Austral.) (Nexis) 27 Jan. 33 We heard the distinctive hop-hop-hop of a boodie as it made its way to the small amount of feed placed on the ground.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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