boady - Hamely Tongue
Source: The Hamely Tongue: A Personal Record of Ulster-Scots in County Antrim
Author: James Fenton
Comments: ‘The Hamely Tongue’ has been widely acclaimed as the authoritative record of contemporary (surviving) Ulster-Scots in its heartland of County Antrim where James Fenton faithfully recorded his dictionary items among a network of other native speakers over a 30-year period. This searchable online version of his book takes its text from ‘Part One’ of the fourth edition of 2014 and includes over 3000 word entries. The book preliminaries, supplementary word lists and end matter have been excluded.
boady ~ a body; a person (Ye couldnae meet a dacenter boady). a boady one, oneself (If a boady had oany sense they’d be at hame a day lake that). a boady’s sel oneself; oneself only (If it wuz only a boady’s sel, like, but there’s the ithers tae think o). lake anither boady like a normal person; as another is (Quet ectin the gype an try tae be lake anither boady). man-boady, wumman-boady (used when it is necessary to emphasise gender: The claes they’r weerin nooadays ye’d harly know whather it’s a man-boady or a wumman-boady. Preachin’s a job for a man-boady, naw a wumman-boady). ordinary boady a normal or average person (Whut he eats wud kill an ordinary boady). toon’s-boady an urban dweller. (Also loc. buddy.)
