Boghaleen; the same as Crusheen, which see.
Bohaun; a cabin or hut. Irish _both_ [boh], a hut, with the diminutive _án_.
Bold; applied to girls and boys in the sense of 'forward,' 'impudent.'
Boliaun, also called _booghalaun bwee_ and _ge[=o]sadaun_; the common yellow ragwort: all these are Irish words.
Bolting-hole; the second or backward entrance made by rats, mice, rabbits, &c., from their burrows, so that if attacked at the ordinary entrance, they can escape by this, which is always left unused except in case of attack. (Kinahan.)
Bones. If a person magnifies the importance of any matter and talks as if it were some great affair, the other will reply:--'Oh, you're _making great bones_ about it.'
Bonnive, a sucking-pig. Irish _banbh_, same sound and meaning. Often used with the diminutive--bonniveen, bonneen. 'Oh look at the _baby pigs_,' says an Irish lady one day in the hearing of others and myself, ashamed to use the Irish word. After that she always bore the nickname 'Baby pig':--'Oh, there's the Baby pig.'
Bonnyclabber; thick milk. Irish _bainne_ [bonny] milk; and _clabar_, anything thick or half liquid. 'In use all over America.' (Russell.)
Boochalawn bwee; ragweed: same as boliaun, which see.
{ 220} Boolanthroor; three men threshing together, instead of the usual two: striking always in time. Irish _buail-an-triúr_, 'the striking of three.'
Booley as a noun; a temporary settlement in the grassy uplands where the people of the adjacent lowland village lived during the summer with their cattle, and milked them and made butter, returning in autumn--cattle and all--to their lowland farms to take up the crops. Used as a verb also: _to booley_. See my 'Smaller Soc. Hist. of Anc. Ireland,' p. 431; or 'Irish Names of Places,' I. 239.
Boolthaun, boulhaun, booltheen, boolshin: the striking part of a flail: from Irish _buail_ [bool], to strike, with the diminutive.
Boon in Ulster, same as _Mihul_ elsewhere; which see.
Boreen or bohereen, a narrow road. Irish _bóthar_ [boher], a road, with the diminutive.
Borick; a small wooden ball used by boys in hurling or goaling, when the proper leather-covered ball is not to hand. Called in Ulster a _nag_ and also a _golley_. (Knowles.)
Borreen-brack, 'speckled cake,' speckled with currants and raisins, from Irish _bairghin_ [borreen], a cake, and _breac_ [brack], speckled: specially baked for Hallow-eve. Sometimes corruptly called _barm-brack_ or _barn-brack_.