Middle English Dictionary Entry
bǒuǧẹ̄ n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | bǒuǧẹ̄ n.(2) Also bougie, buge(e, bugey(e, bugye, boge(e, bogey, bodge, boget & bugge, buggi. |
| Etymology | AF bogé, AL bogea, ?bulgia budge, bag; perhaps akin to OF bouge wallet. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Sheepskin (as distinct from lambskin), budge, ?trimmed sheepskin; ~ skin; (b) ~ rowe, Furriers' Row; ~ shank, fur from the shank of a sheep.
Associated quotations
a
- (1303) in Gras Eng.Cust.Syst.276 : De Sancho de Walmeseie pro bugee val. £ iiii.
- (1310) Acc.Executors in Camd.n.s.108 : De j capucio de buge vendito.
- (1342-3) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.99169 : In iij furrur. de buggy pro pellicio et tunica Prioris.
- (1394) Wardrobe Acc.Rich.II in Archaeol.62508 : Item in x furruris agnorum..Item in j furrura boget.
- a1400 Preste ne monke (Cleo B.2)p.265 : Somme frers beren pelure aboute..For somme bugee, and for somme byse.
- (1420-21) in Gras Eng.Cust.Syst.513 : Pro x barellis capr[is], iii balis bodge, pr. £ lxiii.
- (1429) Will Braybroke in Ess.AST 5305 : A gowne of blak russet, furred with blak bouge.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)191 : Of eche c of lambrys skynnys, bogee, conyns, foxis, cattyn.
- (1437) Invent.Q.Katherine in Sus.AC 37 (Add 32645)174 : A gowne of blak cloth with trompes slyves fourred with bougie.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)11197 : Oþer pelure..Lomb or boge, conyng or hare.
- (1457) Will York in Sur.Soc.30212 : Mantill..penulatum cum boges.
- (1465) Paston2.155 : ij gounes, one furryd with bogey.
- (1466) Acc.Howard in RC 57371 : My mastyr bowt of hym vj boge scynnes, prise iiij s.
- (1473) Will York in Sur.Soc.45204 : j fur..of buge.
b
- (1365) Doc.in Riley Mem.Lond.330 : [All the freemen of the said trade (of pelterers) shall dwell in] Cornhulle Bogerowe.
- (1463) Will York in Sur.Soc.30260 : j togam nigram pennulatam cum buggishanke.