Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Scotch form of
bold .
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Examples
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Ulrike did tell us lots of things about them such as they have bauld spots behind their ears and naming of types due to colouration but I unfortunatly can't remeber much of it.
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“But not more bauld than true,” said Jeanie, with the same quiet simplicity which attended her manner in joy and grief in ordinary affairs, and in those which most interested her feelings.
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And also thae gentlemen hae heard some things they suldna hae heard, an the brandy hadna been ower bauld for your brain, Major Galbraith.
Rob Roy 2005
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Poor Timothy was thunderstruck to find the conjurer acquainted with all these circumstances, and begged to know if he might be so bauld as to ax a question or two about his own fortune.
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And he said that little Callum Beg (he was a bauld mischievous callant that) and your honour were killed that same night in the tuilzie, and mony mae braw men.
Waverley 2004
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'Drimdarroch,' says he, but that's fair rideeculous, unless it was the real auld bauld Drimdarroch, and that's nae ither than Doom.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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And awa 'I went into the barn to winnow my three weights o' naething -- sair, sair, my mind misgave me for fear of wrang-doing and wrang-suffering, baith; but I had aye a bauld spirit.
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"Ye're a bauld chiel, John Broom, I'll say that for ye."
Tales from Many Sources Vol. V Various
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Though my pow it be bauld and my craig be na straucht,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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"Oh, ay! I'll alio 'I've seen it no' sae empty, if that's what ye mean; but if it's no 'jist Dumbarton or Dunedin, it's still auld bauld Doom, and an ill deevil to crack, as the laddie said that found the nutmeg."
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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