单词 | boodie |
释义 | boodien.1 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. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > imp, goblin, or hobgoblin thursec725 puckOE 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 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1?a1700n.21842 |
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