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Vinony

bode

verb

  1. imply
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /bəʊd/ / /boʊd/

name

Etymology: * As a Dutch and German surname, from bode (“messenger”). * As a German and Danish surname, from the name Bodo, derived from Old Saxon bodo (“messenger”), related to above. * As a Dutch and German surname, from Bude (“booth, small house”).

  1. A surname.
  2. A male given name.
  3. A city in Iowa.
  4. A village in Nepal.
  5. A river in Germany, a tributary to the Saale
  6. A small river and tributary to the Wipper

noun

Etymology: From Middle English bod, bode, bade, baide; further etymology uncertain, probably: * an aphetic form of abod (“act of waiting, delay”), probably related to Old English bād (“expectation; waiting”), from Proto-West Germanic *baidu, from Proto-Germanic *baidō; and/or * a variant of bide (“act of delaying; a delay”), from Old English bīd (“act of abiding; delay”), related to bīdan (“to remain, stay; to wait”), from Proto-West Germanic *bīdan (“to wait”), from Proto-Germanic *bīdaną (“to await, wait”) (whence modern English abide, bide), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- (“to convince; to trust”).

  1. An act of biding or waiting; a wait; also, a delay.

    “[M]ake thou thy boade, / In reſolution to reuenge theſe vvronges, / VVith bloud of thouſands guiltleſſe of this rage, / Flie thou on them amaine: […]”

verb

Etymology: An inflected form of bide.

  1. simple past of bide