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_Presb. Eloquence._
2. A bugbear, an object of terror, Ibid.
Belg. _bauw_, a spectre; C. B. _bo_, a hobgoblin.
~Bu-kow~, _s._ Any thing frightful, as a scarecrow, applied also to a hobgoblin, S.
V. ~Cow~.
From _bu_, and _kow_, _cow_, a goblin.
~Bu-man~, _s._ A goblin; the devil, S. used as _Bu-kow_.
BUB, BOB, _s._ A. blast, a gust of severe weather.
_Douglas._
Allied perhaps to Isl. _bobbe_, malum, noxae; or E. _bob_, to beat, as denoting the suddenness of its impulse.
BUBBLY, _adj._ Snotty, S. A. Bor.
~Bubblyjock~, _s._ The vulgar name for a turkey c.o.c.k, S. synon.
_Polliec.o.c.k_, S. B.
_Grose._
The name seems to have originated from the shape of his comb.
BUCHT, _s._ A bending; a fold.
V. ~Bought~.
_To_ BUCK, _v. n._ To push, to b.u.t.t, Perths.
Alem. _bock-en_, to strike; Su. G. _bock_, impulsus.
_To_ BUCK _out_, _v. n._ To make a guggling noise.
BUCKER, _s._ A name given to a species of whale, West of S.
_Statist. Acc._
BUCKIE, BUCKY, _s._
1. Any spiral sh.e.l.l of whatever size, S.
_Muse's Threnodie._
_The Roaring Buckie_, Buccinum undatum, Linn. is the common great whelk.
Teut. _buck-en_, to bow, to bend; as this expresses the twisted form of the sh.e.l.l.
2. A perverse or refractory person is denominated a _thrawn buckie_, and sometimes, in still harsher language, a _Deil's buckie_, S.
_Ramsay._
~Buckie Ingram~, that species of crab denominated Cancer bernardus, Newhaven.
~Buckie Prins~, A periwinkle; Turbo terebra, Linn. Also called _Water-spouts_, Loth.
_To_ BUCKLE, _v. a._ To join two persons in marriage; used in a low or ludicrous sense, S.
_Macneill._
~Buckle-the-beggars~, s. One who marries others in a clandestine and disorderly manner, S.
BUCKTOOTH, _s._ Any tooth that juts out from the rest, S.
Sibb. derives this from _Boks_, q. v. Perhaps allied to Su. G.
_bok_, rostrum.
BUD, _s._ A gift; generally one that is meant as a bribe.
_Acts Ja. I._
C. B. _budd_, Corn. _bud_, profit, emolument. Or shall we view it as formed from A. S. _bude_, obtulit, q. the bribe that has been _offered_?
_To_ ~Bud~, ~Budd~, _v. a._ To endeavour to gain by gifts, to bribe.
_Pitscottie._
BUDGE, _s._ A kind of bill, used in warfare.
_Douglas._
O. Fr. _bouge_, _boulge_, faucille, serpe; Roquefort.
