nonce-wd. [According to Nares ‘Conjectured to be a term of contempt, invented upon the overthrow of the Bastard of Burgundy in a contest with Anthony Woodville, in Smithfield 1467’; but this, in absence of evidence, is very improbable.] A braggadocio, bully.
1598. B. Jonson, Ev. Man in Hum., IV. iv. Bobadill … that rogue, that foist, that fencing Burgullian?
