A bodle or boddle or bodwell, also known as a half groat or Turner was a
Scottish
Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including:
*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
copper coin, of less value than a
bawbee, worth about one-sixth of an
English penny. They were first issued under
Charles I, and were minted until the coronation of
Anne.
Its name may derive from Bothwell (a mint-master).
It is mentioned in one of the songs of
Joanna Baillie:
Black Madge, she is prudent, has sense in her noddle
Is douce and respectit; I carena a bodle.
The use of the word survives in the anglicised phrase "not to care a bodle",
[ which Brewer glosses as "not to care a farthing". Something similar appears in Burns' '' Tam o' Shanter'' (line 110), it is also mentioned:
]Fair play, he car'd na deils a boddle (He cared not devils a bodle)
Gallery
Post-Medieval Scottish Coin (FindID 250281).jpg , Turner or Bodle of Charles I, c.1642-1650 AD
Charles II Turner (or Bodle) 1663 (FindID 389031).jpg , Turner or Bodle of Charles II, c. 1663-1668 AD
Coin, Scottish Turner or Bodle of Charles II (FindID 484303).jpg , Turner or Bodle of Charles II, c. 1677-1679 AD
See also
* Plack
* Pound Scots
* Scottish coinage
In Sunderland, County Durham, in the North of England there is a well known as the Bodelwell.
References
* MacKay, Charles – ''A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch'' (1888)
* '' Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable''
External links
*Elks, Ken
Coinage of Great Britain
Coins of Scotland
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