baudrons

American  

[baw-druhnz] / ˈbɔ drənz /

noun

Scot.

1. a cat.

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Etymology

Origin of baudrons

1400–50; late Middle English ( Scots ) balderonis; perhaps akin to Middle English badde cat

Example Sentences

"Naebody but mysell and baudrons," said the old woman.

From The Black Dwarf by Scott, Walter, Sir

Hints, too, of a humour, which, like that of Shakespeare, rises at times by sheer depth of insight into the sublime; as when Hornie did the Laigh Kirk watchJust like a winking baudrons.

From Literary and General Lectures and Essays by Kingsley, Charles

For me, no venerable spinster hoarded in the Trongate, permitting herself few luxuries during a long protracted life, save a lass and a lanthorn, a parrot, and the invariable baudrons of antiquity.

From Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

Or, yet more to engage the intellect may come:— Poussie, poussie, baudrons, Whaur ha'e ye been?

From Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk by Ford, Robert

Poor collie, our auld-farrant dog, Will bark wi' joy whene'er she comes; And baudrons, on the ingle rug, Will blithely churm at "auld gray-thrums."

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles