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bultr”. For the final r cf. below bolteri, adj.

bolteri, bulteri [bo‘l··təri·], adj., lumpy, a b. stane. U. No. bultren, adj., lumpy.

boltet [bɔ‘ᶅtət, bȯ‘ᶅtət], adj., big; round; lumpy, a great b. head. Nm., Y. bɔ‘ᶅtət: Yⁿ., bȯ‘ᶅtət: Nm. *boltóttr or *bultóttr; No. bultutt, adj., thick; clumsy.

boltin, bolti [bȯ‘ᶅti(n), bɔ‘ᶅtin, bå‘ᶅtin], adj., = boltet, adj.; N.I. (boltin: Uⁿ.; otherwise comm.: bolti); a bolti(n) codlin (shield), a plump, fully half-grown cod. *boltinn or *bultinn; No. bulten, adj., clumsy; plump.

bolts [bȯ‘ᶅts], sb. pl., a) anxiety; restless, irritable state of mind; great nervousness: “he lay a year i’ de b.”; b) peevishness; fretfulness, to be i’ de b., to be fretful and irritable. Uⁿ. If group a be fundamental, the word is poss. to be classed with Icel. bult, n., a) continual movement in tumbling or turning round; b) subdued growling (B.H.); deriv. bylta, vb., a) in Icel.: to fall; turn over; roll, = Fær. bolta, bölta; b) in Sw. dial.: to be very busy.

boltusten, sb., see bolsten.

bombel, bommel, sb. and vb., see bumbel, bummel.

bomfisin [bȯm·fi̇̄·sɩn], sb., 1) one’s fill of food; an abundant meal; U. (U^wg.). 2) a sound drubbing; I’ll gi’e dee a b.; U^s. — Prob.: *bumb-fýsn. Icel. bumbr, m., belly; paunch (O.N. bumba, f., a drum). O.N. fýsn (fýsi, fýst), f., desire; lust. Meaning 1 is certainly the orig. one, meaning 2 has prob. arisen by conn. with Eng. bum, sb.

bommi (bummi) [bɔmi, bȯmi, bomi], sb., 1) wooden vessel (esp. for milk, curdled milk); small, shallow churn. Br. [bȯmi]. 2) abusive term for a person, who speaks badly or

has a bad pronunciation.: a barkin’ b.; Y. [bɔmi]. Conn. [bomi]. O.N. bumba, f., a drum; No. bumba, f., provision-chest; Da. bomme, id. In the phrase “stupid as a b.” (Br.: bȯmi) the Shetl. word is prob. L.Sc. bummie, sb., a stupid person; a fool.

bomen, bomer, sb., see bummer, sb.

bon, sb., see bonfrost, sb.

bonabäg [bɔn··abäg·], sb., dwindling; languishing; miserable state, esp. of cattle lean from hunger; come to b. (Yⁿ.), miserable; skinny (of cattle); sometimes in the expr. “gane to b.” (Y^h.), vanished; gone away; lost, both of living beings (animals) and of objects. Y. — From Fe., banabak [bā··nabak·] is reported in sense of a miserable, skinny animal (by association with the word “back”). — *bana-beigr. No. banebeig (bana-beig), m., mortal illness or injury. Cf. bani, sb., and the use of this word.

bond, bondsman, sb., see bund, bundsman.

bonek [bɔnək], sb., large bone; joint, esp. the upper and thick end of an animal’s thigh-bone, b. or bonek-ben. Uⁿ. No. buna, f., cannon-bone (Aa.); large bone, esp. the fibula or femur (R.); O.N. “buna” as a nickname.

bonfrost [bȯnfråst, bɔ̇n-], sb., very severe frost, prop. when water freezes to the bottom. *botnfrost (O.N. botn, m., bottom); cf. No. botnfrjosa, vb., = Da. bundfryse. Y., Fe. In the expr. “to freeze lek [‘like’] de bon [bȯn, bɔ̇n]” (Y., Fe.), to freeze very hard, bon is certainly an abbr. of bonfrost.

bong¹ [båŋ, bɔŋ], sb., a stroke; blow. O.N. bang, n., id. More comm.: bung.

bong² [bȯŋ], sb., a ball, ball of the foot, de b. o’ de foot. N. *bung- (bump; lump). Parallel form to bing; q.v.