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Rh bogi$2$ [bogi],, a skin; leather sack. - is  *- (from *balg) = entire skin of an animal; to -flay, -flachter [-flaχtər],, to “bœlgflå”, to flay an animal without cutting the skin at the belly, — ( belgfletta; see Aa. and R.). For the form of the word bög,, leather sack.

bogibinder [bog·ibäᶇ·dər],, a miser; stingy person, “a person who ties up his leather-bag (de )”. See $2$,

bogi-flay and -flachter,, see under $2$,

bogi [bogi, bȯgi]-flooer,, catchfly (pink), Silene. The name certainly from the bladder-shaped, inflated calyx; see $2$,

Bogla (Bugla)-day,, = -day. See under ,

bogs [bōgs],, to be in constant activity in scenting out and appropriating trifles; to go about pilfering. (Lerwick). : *poksa from *poka. poka,, to be busy, to busy oneself with trifles,

bohonnin [bohȯᶇ·ən],, mouse, tabu-word, used by fishermen at sea. Ironical application of the word “búhundr” (watch-dog)? ,

bok [bok, bōk or bō$m$k],, to squeeze; press down (with small jerks), to stamp; trample; to b. claes, to full clothes in a tub by treading on them; to b. op de land, to trample the ground down; to geng [bō$ə$kɩn] aboot, to stamp about. Also to walk clumsily, to jump along (=, , ), to b. trough gutter (through mire, morass), trough a mire; —  [bok, bōk, bō$ə$k]. [bok]. — and boka,, to work spasmodically; squeeze; beat,, boge, and buka, to drub; beat. Also buck,, to push; butt; but the long o-sound which can be heard in, indicates that the word is of Norse extraction in — , — In the sense of making a gurgling sound; bubbling up ( of water in shoes), [bɔk, båk] and [bok],, is another word,  bok, bock, to be ready to vomit, in which sense also , may be heard used.

boken [bō$ə$kən], and , baked, of bread. from baka,, to bake, with the common change in Norn of a to o.

boki [boki, bɔki],, ghost, bogey for frightening children; ; ; also used contemptuously of a person one cannot bear: “a de’il’s b.”;  bokki,, man; bokke,, bogey, ghost. A form with long o [bōki] is found in , corresponding to “boakie” in a few dialects. From Unst is recorded a form “bååki, bå$ə$ki”.

bok-shackle [bok·ᶊak·əl],, to shackle the fore-legs of a horse, to b. a horse (in breaking in a horse). - for *- from bógr, , a shoulder; shackle; $a$,

boks [bɔks], and, see.

bol$e$ [bōl, bō$1$l] and boul [bɔul], , beacon; blazing fire, a b. o’ fire; , ; sometimes “in a b.”, of living beings, of human beings: flushing with heat and dripping with sweat, he was in a b. o’ sweat. a [bōli] o’ reek, very dense smoke;  bál,, beacon; fire. From and  is reported [bɔulɩn] in sense of fire, a “boulin” o’ a fire — doubtless a form of the verb =.

bol$1$ [bō$ə$l] and boli [bōli],, a pile of peats stacked up for drying (3—4 of peats put together). bolr,, = bulr, trunk;