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Definition of "bodle" []

  • A former Scottish copper coin of less value than a bawbee, worth about one-sixth of an English penny. (noun)

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Use "bodle" in a sentence
  • "I cared not a "bodle" for the company of the misses: Nay, though there was a boarding-school in the village, and though we used to meet with its fair inmates at"
  • "Before the door of Saunders Jaup, a feuar of some importance, “who held his land free, and caredna a bodle for any one,” yawned that odoriferous gulf, ycleped, in Scottish phrase, the jawhole; in other words, an uncovered common sewer."
  • "Miss Clara does not merit respect and kindness at your hand; but I doubt mickle if she wad care a bodle for thae braw things."