Sc. [perh. ad. Gael. bodach ghost. But cf. BOLLY.] A spectre, a hobgoblin.
a. 1700[?]. Ballad, Baroune o’ Gairtly, in Smith, Hist. Aberdeensh. (1875), I. 650. Nae gruesome gaist, nor black boodie Cud fleg that bold Baroune.
1785. Jrnl. fr. Lond., 6, in Poems Buchan Dial. (Jam.). About the time o’ night that the boodies begin to gang.
1868. G. Macdonald, R. Falconer, I. 12. He rins as gin I war a boodie.
