Bodle
A bodle or boddle or bodwell, also known as a half groat or Turner was a Scottish copper coin, of less value than a bawbee, worth about one-sixth of an English penny, first issued under Charles II.[1] They were minted until the coronation of Anne. Its name may derive from Bothwell (a mint-master).[1]
It is mentioned in one of the songs of Joanna Baillie:
- Black Madge, she is prudent, has sense in her noddle
- Is douce and respectit; I carena a bodle.
The use of the word survives in the anglicised phrase "not to care a bodle",[1] which Brewer glosses as "not to care a farthing". Something similar appears in Burns' Tam o' Shanter (line 110), it is also mentioned:
- Fair play, he car'd na deils a boddle (He cared not devils a bodle)
See also
In Sunderland, County Durham, in the North of England there is a well known as the Bodelwell.
References
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<references />, or <references group="..." />- MacKay, Charles – A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch (1888)
- Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
External links
- Elks, Ken. Coinage of Great Britain
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