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

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Example Sentences

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baudrons

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 Robert Ford

Then that curst carmagnole, auld Satan, Watches like baudrons by a ratton Our sinfu' saul to get a claut on, Wi'felon ire; Syne, whip! his tail ye'll ne'er cast saut on, He's aff like fire.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

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

From The Black Dwarf by Sir Walter Scott

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 J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

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 Charles Kingsley

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