Obs. or dial. Also 5 boude, 5–7 bowde, 6 bowd, 8 bood, 9 bude. [Of unknown origin; identity with OE. budda, ME. bod(de in scharnboddes dung-beetles, has been conjectured.] A weevil; an insect or worm that breeds in malt, etc. Also in comb., as boud-eaten.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 46. Bowde, malte-worme, gurgulio.
1580. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 52. Bowd eaten malt, for health or for profit, find noysome thou shalt.
1691. Ray, S. & E. Country Wds., Bouds, weevils, an insect breeding in malt.
1713. Lond. & Country Brewer, III. (ed. 2), 222. In some Counties they call it Bood, others Pope, and Whool.
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Bude, an old name for the biscuit-weevil.
