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64 bong$3$ [bɔŋ],, bladder of sea-weed, tangbong. *bung- (bump). Parallel form to ,

bong [båŋ],, to knock, to knock at a door, to b. at de door. banga,, to knock, to knock at a door.

bong-, bonk-, see -, -.

bonga [båŋga, bɔŋga],, 1) knock; knocking at a door; open de door! dat is a b., open the door! somebody is knocking. [båŋga]. 2) rocky cave; grotto where the breakers roar, a b. or “a hole o’ b.”, [(båŋga) bɔŋga]. As a place-name: de hole o’. *banga. bang,, knocking; clamour; noise; uproar.

bongtang [bɔŋtaŋ],, sea-wrack. See $h$ and ,

bonhus,, see.

bonks, and, bonksi, , see,.

in some old rigmaroles: a) a cradle-song from, that begins:  [bā wā bȯᶇa], lullaby baby! -a in  is the (barn-it);  baw, , to lull, lull asleep (bawaw, , is a jocular name for a child); b) an cradle-song from : Bis bis bio, vil ikke tio [bɩs b. bi·ə, bȯᶇ(ə) vɩl ɩkə ti·ə],, ''lullaby! the'' child will not hush, ; c) a verse from, used in an old troll-tale (fairy tale): Geng hame to [fɩvla] and tell [dɩvla] at de [hȯᶇɩns] wis  [lopən] in a “tuilly” [tøli] and brunt [‘burnt’] de  [bȯᶇɩns] = Go home to Fivla and tell Divla (Tivla) that the dogs were fighting and had “burnt the children”,  had killed the children by pushing them into the fire on the hearth. is the  form in  (bǫrnin) with added   “s.” From Foula come the forms ,  also found in two : , .  barn, , child;  bann, badn, baan, : bonn, bodn, boon.  bairn, from
 * bonn [bȯᶇ],, child; only preserved
 * *barn-it; see.

bonnhoga [bȯᶇ·hō·ga],, childhood’s home, ane’s ain [‘own’] b., = “calf-ground” [-grȯnd], now more used; also in a wider sense: place of resort; former haunt, ane’s auld [‘old’] b.;, , ; he is gane [‘gone’] back till his auld b., a) he has now begun to come back to his old haunt; b), used of the wind: it has begun to blow from the same quarter from which it blew before. Another use of the word is to be found in the : “hit [‘it’] was b. atween dem”, understood between them, without mentioning the name of the person or thing spoken about. Sometimes in connections where the sense of the word has become obscure, thus, ironically: a good trip; a good piece of work, ; dey’re made a b. de day [‘to-day’], they got nothing out of their trip or errand to-day; dat’ll be a b. to geng [‘go’] to Mid-Yell. *barnhagi, “child-pasture”. See
 * and ,

bon(n)svamm [bȯ‘ᶇᶊ·vam·, bɔ̇‘ᶇᶊ·-], , 1) sickness; labour-pains which, according to old superstition, the wife by certain means can transfer to the husband, and thereby evade these pains herself, = “bairn-sickness”; By assimilation: [vȯ‘ᶇᶊ·vam·]: 2) lameness of the loins of women in childbed. partly defect, partly damage done to one by others). See * and, , and  (= ).
 * barns-vamm ( vamm, ,

bons, bonz [bȯndᶎ, bȯᶇdᶎ], , strong tide, a b. o’ tide: that part