Forms: 4, 9 buli-, 5–7, 9 boly-, 6 bul-, 7 bally-, 8 bollimong, (6 bullimoong, 7 -mung, 8 -mond), 6– bullimong. (7–8 Dicts. have bulli-, bolli-, bullmony.) [Of obscure composition: the second element is app. IMONG:—OE. ʓemang, -mǫng, mixture.]
1. A mixture of various kinds of grain sown together (as oats, pease and vetches) for feeding cattle. Cf. DREDGE, MESLIN, and L. farrago.
1313. etc. in Rogers, Agric. & Prices, II. 174/4, etc.
1494. Will of Fyche, Essex (Somerset Ho.). Frumenti et duo quarteria de Bolymong.
1552. Huloet, Bolymonge whyche is a kynd of myxture of corne and grayne, farrago.
1577. Harrison, Descr. Brit., I. xviii. Of mixed corne, as … tares and otes (which they call bulmong) … here is no place to speake.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 557. Grain which … is sown for beasts … which they call dredge or ballimong.
1639. Horn & Robotham, Gate Lang. Unl., xii. § 130. Bullimong [mixt provender] is sowne for cattell.
1706. in Phillips [see 2].
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Bullimony, bullimong, bollimony, [etc.].
1844. Baker, in Jrnl. R.A.S., V. I. 4. Peas … are frequently sown with oats…. This crop is denominated bullimong.
b. attrib.
1615. T. Adams, Sacrifice of Thankf., Wks. 1861, I. 127. They are full of farraginous and bullimong mixtures.
1647. Ward, Simp. Cobler, 24. If any man mislikes a bully mong drassock more then I, let him take her for all mee.
† 2. = BUCKWHEAT. Obs.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, III. liii. 393. The seede is blacke and triangled … like to the seede of Bockweyde or Bolymong.
1598. Gerard, Herbal, I. lx. ¶ 4. 83. Buckwheat is called … in English … Bullimong.
1706. Phillips, Bollimong or Bollmong, Buck-wheat, a kind of Grain: Also a Medley of several sorts of Grain together, otherwise call’d Mastin, or Mong-corn.
