Bodle

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. They were minted until the coronation of Anne. Its name may derive from Bothwell (a mint-master).

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", 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)

ee also

*Plack
*Pound Scots
*Scottish coinageIn Sunderland , County Durham , in the North of England there is a well known as the Bodelwell.

References

* MacKay, Charles – "A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch" (1888)
*
* "Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable"

External links

*Elks, Ken. [http://www.predecimal.com/p12scottish.htm Coinage of Great Britain]


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