Bodle
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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. They were first issued under Charles I, and were minted until the coronation of Anne.[1] Its name may derive from Bothwell (a mint-master).[2]
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",[2] 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)
Gallery
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Turner or Bodle of Charles I, c.1642-1650 AD
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Turner or Bodle of Charles II, c. 1663-1668 AD
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Turner or Bodle of Charles II, c. 1677-1679 AD
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Bodle or Turner of William and Mary, 1692
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See also
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References
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- MacKay, Charles – A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch (1888)
- Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
External links
- Elks, Ken. Coinage of Great Britain