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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]
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