BULLER, vb. to trickle, bubble. Winyet,
II, 62. O.N. buldra,
Norse bulrdra.
See E.D.D. cp. Sw. bullra, to make an
indistinct noise. O.
Fr. bulder, L.G. bullern (see
Koolman), Germ. poltern
all have more the idea of loud
noise, clamor, as the Norse
word sometimes has. Lyndsay, 226,
95, uses the word in this
sense. It may be genuine Eng.
BUSK, vb. to prepare, dress, adorn, ornament.
O.N. buask from
bua sik, to make ready,
to ornament. See Wall. Exhibits
W. Scand. reflexive ending
sk. The Gael. busgainnich, to
dress, to adorn, is a loanword
from O.N.
BUSKIE, adj. fond of dress, Jamieson, busk
sb. dress,
decoration. See busk
vb.
BUITH ([-u]), sb. booth, shop. Winyet,
1, 23, 2. O.N. bueth, shop,
O. Dan. both, bodh.
O. Sw. boeth, Norse bud, Sw. bod,
Dan. dial. bod.
M.E. b[-o]þe, cp. M.L.G. bode.
BYNG, vb. to heap up. Douglas, III, 144, 5. See bing sb.
BYRD, vb. impers., it behoved. Bruce,
VI, 316. O.N. byrja, to
behove, beseem, pret. burethi,
Norse byrja id., pret.
burde, O. Dan. boerae,
Sw. boera.
BYSNING, adj. strange, monstrous, terrible,
Douglas, I, 29, 7;
I, 37, 5; II, 70, 17.
M.E. biseninge, ill-boding, monstrous,
from O.N. bysna, to
portend, Norse bisna, to marvel over.
BYSNING, sb. a strange person, an unusually
unfortunate person.
Douglas, I, 2544; I, 339.
O.N. bysna, to portend, bysn,
a strange and portentous thing.
Norse bysn, a prodigy,
bysning, curiosity.
See the adj. Cp. Shetland soni-bosni,
O.N. sjonar-bysn, a
marvel.
CADYE, adj. wanton. Lyndsay, LXXXVII,
2567. Also written cady,
caidgy, caigie;
sometimes means “sportive, cheerful.”
Dan.
kaad, merry, lusty,
lustful. So Sw. kat, O.N. katr,
merry, cheerful, Norse kaat.
Cp. Philotus 5, “the carle
caiges,” where the same
word is used as a vb. to wanton, be
wanton.
CALLER, adj. cool. Fergusson, 73.
Very common in modern Sco.
diall. O.N. kaldr,
Norse kall, cold. Seems to be a case
of the Norse inflexional r
not disappearing in Sco.
CANGLER, a wrangler. Ramsay, II, 482. Norse
kengla, kaeingla,
kjaeingla, to quarrel.
A Sco. vb. cangle, to quarrel, also
exists. Cp. O.N.
kangin-yrethi, jeering words, Yorkshire
caingy, cross, ill-tempered.


