booly
English
Alternative forms
- boley
- bolye
- bouillie
Etymology
Irish búachaill (“cowherd”).
Noun
booly (plural boolies)
- (obsolete) A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars.
- (obsolete) A place in the mountain pastures enclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for booly in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- Looby, looby