bod

Etymology

Clipping of body. The "person" sense may alternatively derive from Scottish Gaelic bodach (“old man”) via Scots.^[1]

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɑd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɒd/
• Rhymes: -ɒd

Noun

bod (plural bods)

1. (slang) The body.

   Fred likes to keep his bod in shape.

2. (slang) A person.

   George was a bit of an odd bod.

   • 2005, Richard Templar, The Rules of Management (page 73)

     There were cameras covering car parks, offices, corridors and storage areas in the basement. Result. The security bods started watching as if their lives depended on it.

References

Anagrams

• DOB, dob

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bodъ.

Pronunciation

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Noun

bod m

1. (geometry) point
2. (temperature) point
3. item (of an agenda)
4. (sports) point, mark
5. stab
   • 1866, Josef Bojislav Pichl (translator), Don Quijote de la Mancha‎, Praha: I. L. Kober, translation of original by Miguel de Cervantes, page 34:

     Na moutě duchu! zvolal po těch slovích Sancho; ať nedím tři tisíce šlehů, ale ani tři si nedám, jako nedal bych si tři body dýkou.

     "By all that's good," exclaimed Sancho at this, "I'll just as soon give myself three stabs with a dagger as three, not to say three thousand, lashes.

Further reading

• bod in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• bod in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Anagrams

• dob

Etymology 1

From Old Norse búð.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse bót.

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bot, from Old Dutch *bot, from Proto-Germanic *budą.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

bod n (plural boden, diminutive bodje n)

1. order
2. offer

Etymology

From Middle Irish bot (“tail; penis”), from Proto-Celtic *buzdos (“tail, penis”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʷosdʰos (“piece of wood”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /bˠɔd̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /bˠʌd̪ˠ/

Noun

bod m (genitive singular boid, nominative plural boid)

1. penis

   Synonym: cuideog (euphemistic)

2. (archaic) churl, boor, lout

Mutation

Further reading

• "bod" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “1 bot” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *budą. Cognate with Old Norse boð.

Verb

bod n (nominative plural bodu)

1. A command, mandate, precept, order; bidding

Noun

bod m inan

1. baud

Etymology

From Middle Irish bot (“tail; penis”), from Proto-Celtic *buzdos (“tail, penis”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʷosdʰos (“piece of wood”).

Noun

bod m

1. (anatomy) penis

Further reading

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• “1 bot” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *bodъ.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English baud.

Etymology

From Old Swedish boþ, from Old Norse bóð (Compare Old West Norse búð).

Noun

bod c

1. a shed, a shack, a small building
2. a shop, a boutique

Etymology

Borrowed from German Brot, English bread and Dutch brood.

Noun

bod (plural bods)

1. bread

Etymology

From Middle Welsh bot, from Proto-Celtic *butā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to be, become”); all the b- initial forms are from the same root.

The vowel-initial forms as well as sy(dd) are from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be”).

The third-person singular present mae originally meant ‘here is’ and is from the same source as yma (“here”) plus Proto-Celtic *esti. The third-person plural maent (colloquial maen) is derived from the singular by adding the third-person plural verb ending -nt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boːd/

Verb

bod (first-person singular present wyf)

1. to be
2. that... is, that... are, etc. (personal forms: (fy) mod i, (dy) fod di, (ei) fod e/o, (ei) bod hi, (ein) bod ni, (eich) bod chi, (eu) bod nhw)

   Dw i’n meddwl (ei) bod hi’n ddoniol. ― I think that she’s funny.

   Mae hi’n meddwl (fy) mod i’n dod. ― She thinks that I’m coming.

   Roedd Eleri yn dweud (dy) fod di’n sâl. ― Eleri was saying you’re ill.

Mutation

Further reading

• “bod”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, 2014