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Rh bultr”. For the final r below ,

bolteri, bulteri [bo‘l··təri·], , lumpy, a b. stane. bultren, , lumpy.

boltet [bɔ‘ᶅtət, bȯ‘ᶅtət],, big; round; lumpy, a great b. head. , bɔ‘ᶅtət:, bȯ‘ᶅtət: *boltóttr or *bultóttr; bultutt, , thick; clumsy.

boltin, bolti [bȯ‘ᶅti(n), bɔ‘ᶅtin, bå‘ᶅtin], , =, ; (: a  codlin (shield), a plump, fully half-grown cod. *boltinn or plump.
 * otherwise : );
 * bultinn; bulten,, clumsy;

bolts [bȯ‘ᶅts],, a) anxiety; restless, irritable state of mind; great nervousness: “he lay a year i’ de b.”; b) peevishness; fretfulness, to be i’ de b., to be fretful and irritable. If group a be fundamental, the word is to be classed with  bult,, a) continual movement in tumbling or turning round; b) subdued growling (B.H.); bylta,, a) in : to fall; turn over; roll, = bolta, bölta; b) in : to be very busy.

boltusten,, see.

bombel, bommel, and, see ,.

bomfisin [bȯm·fi̇̄·sɩn],, 1) one’s fill of food; an abundant meal; . 2) a sound drubbing; I’ll gi’e dee a b.; — : *bumb-fýsn. bumbr,, belly; paunch ( bumba,, a drum). fýsn (fýsi, fýst),, desire; lust. Meaning 1 is certainly the one, meaning 2 has arisen by with  bum,

bommi (bummi) [bɔmi, bȯmi, bomi], , 1) wooden vessel ( for milk, curdled milk); small, shallow churn. [bȯmi]. 2) abusive term for a person, who speaks badly or has a bad pronunciation.: a barkin’ b.; [bɔmi]. [bomi]. bumba, , a drum; bumba,, provision-chest; bomme, In the phrase “stupid as a b.” (: bȯmi) the word is  bummie,, a stupid person; a fool.

bomen, bomer,, see ,

bon,, see ,

bonabäg [bɔn··abäg·],, dwindling; languishing; miserable state, of cattle lean from hunger; come to b., miserable; skinny (of cattle); sometimes in the “gane to b.”, vanished; gone away; lost, both of living beings (animals) and of objects. — From , [bā··nabak·] is reported in sense of a miserable, skinny animal (by association with the word “back”). — *bana-beigr. banebeig (bana-beig), , mortal illness or injury. ,, and the use of this word.

bond, bondsman,, see , .

bonek [bɔnək],, large bone; joint, the upper and thick end of an animal’s thigh-bone, b. or. buna,, cannon-bone (Aa.); large bone, the fibula or femur (R.); “buna” as a nickname.

bonfrost [bȯnfråst, bɔ̇n-],, very severe frost, when water freezes to the bottom. *botnfrost ( botn,, bottom);  botnfrjosa, , = bundfryse. , In the “to freeze lek [‘like’] de [bȯn, bɔ̇n]”, to freeze very hard, is certainly an  of.

bong$n$ [båŋ, bɔŋ],, a stroke; blow. bang,,  More

bong$n$ [bȯŋ],, a ball, ball of the foot, de b. o’ de foot. *bung- (bump; lump). Parallel form to