ETYMOLOGY
of uncertain origin; perhaps Celtic
EXAMPLE
“… With fair tretie ʒit scho gart hir vpryse,
And to the burde thay went and togidder sat,
And scantlie had thay drunkin anis or twyse,
Quhen in come Gib hunter our Iolie Cat,
And bad God speid, the Burges vp with that,
And till the hole scho went as fyre on flint,
Bawdronis the vther be the bak hes hint. ….”
From: The Morall Babillis of Esope the Phrygian
By Robert Henryson, a1500
PRONUNCIATION
BAW-druhnz
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