Forms: 4 budel, 5 boþul(e, bothil, 6 bodle, boddle, 8– buddle, 9 boodle. [Etymology unknown: the conjecture that it is a. Du. buidel purse, on account of its bearing golds (yellow flowers) is untenable.] A rural name for the Corn-marigold.
a. 1400. Names of Herbs, in MS. Sloane 5 f. 6. Monica, budel.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 46. Boþul [printed Boyul] or bothule, herbe, or cow-slope [v.r. bothil, boyl].
1580. Tusser, Husb., li. 11. Like vnto boddle no weede there is such.
1787. Marshall, E. Norfolk, Gloss. (E. D. S.), Buddle, corn-marigold.
1830. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, I. 42. Buddle, a noxious weed among corn, Chrysanthemum segetum.
