bodle

• “I cared not a "bodle" for the company of the misses: Nay, though there was a boarding-school in the village, and though we used to meet with its fair inmates at”

  The Monastery

• “Before the door of Saunders Jaup, a feuar of some importance, “who held his land free, and caredna a bodle for any one,” yawned that odoriferous gulf, ycleped, in Scottish phrase, the jawhole; in other words, an uncovered common sewer.”

  Saint Ronan's Well

• “Miss Clara does not merit respect and kindness at your hand; but I doubt mickle if she wad care a bodle for thae braw things.”

  Saint Ronan's Well

• “I cared not a “bodle” for the company of the misses: Nay, though there was a boarding-school in the village, and though we used to meet with its fair inmates at Simon”

  The Monastery

• “BODDLE, bodle, a copper coin, worth one third of an English penny.”

  Waverley

• “In which respect, not any one daring to displease her, shee went with the dead bodle to the Seigneurie, there to answere all Objections.”

  The Decameron

• “The Provost looked anew upon the careless, intrepid young Northumbrian, who seemed not to care a bodle for his imminent fate.”

  Border Ghost Stories

• “The race o 'them never brocht ocht in my generation to puir Scotland worth a bodle, unless it micht be a new fricassee to fyle a stamach wi'.”

  Doom Castle

• “You can wadger your henmist bodle on that," says Sandy, as he took a rive ooten a penny lafe.”

  My Man Sandy

• “M'lver was most frantic about the business, and I think I was cool, for I was never a person that cared a bodle about my history bye the second generation.”

  John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn

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