bodach

She was more lively than the first corpse, for he had scarcely taken any of the clay away from about her, when she sat up and began to cry, “Ho, you bodach (clown)!

Teig O’Kane and the Corpse 1921

I met a bodach on the road yesterday, and he said, ‘Teigue, tell me how many pennies are in your bag; I will wager three pennies that there are not twenty pennies in your bag; let me put in my hand and count them.

The Hour-Glass William Butler 1916

The bodach for whom he herded was a dour, ill-conditioned fellow, full of curses and violent threats, but the boy was content in the life of the hillsides, and troubled very little about the bodach's dour looks.

Waysiders Seumas O'Kelly 1899

I met a bodach on the road yesterday, and he said,

The Hour Glass 1897

I met a bodach on the road yesterday, and he said, "Teigue, tell me how many pennies are in your bag; I will wager three pennies that there are not twenty pennies in your bag; let me put in my hand and count them."

The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays Lady Gregory 1897

Insult was added to injury in that the oppressor was no knight in shining armour, but a very churl of men; to the courteous and cultured Irishman a "bodach Sassenach," a man of low blood, of low cunning, caring only for the things of the body, with no veneration for the things of the spirit -- with, in fine, no music in his soul.

The Crime Against Europe A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914 Roger Casement 1890

There is a bogle or a brownie, a witch or a gyre-carlin, a bodach or a fairy, in the case?”

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

“What’s bodach?” he asked, stumbling over the foreign phrase.

The Lightkeeper Wiggs, Susan 1997