Bodle 3577067 217934774 2008-06-08T11:24:51Z Thijs!bot 1392310 robot Adding: [[it:Bodle]] A '''bodle''' or '''boddle''' or '''bodwell''', also known as a '''half groat''' or '''Turner''' was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[copper]] coin, of less value than a [[bawbee]], worth about one-sixth of an English penny, first issued under [[Charles II of England|Charles II]]. They were minted until the coronation of [[Anne of England|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 [[Robert Burns|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) ==See also== *[[Plack]] *[[Pound Scots]] *[[Scottish coinage]] ==References== * MacKay, Charles – ''A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch'' ([[1888]]) * {{1911}} * ''[[Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable]]'' ==External links== *Elks, Ken. [http://www.predecimal.com/p12scottish.htm Coinage of Great Britain] {{Scotland-hist-stub}} {{coin-stub}} [[Category:Coins of Scotland]] [[it:Bodle]]