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

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baudrons

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 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 by Various

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

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

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