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BAUDRONS, BAWDRONS, BAUDRINS, BADRANS, Badrins, Badrons, Bauthrons, Bauldrins, n. An affectionate name for a cat. In some districts, e.g. Banff, the term, like Eng. puss, is applied to the hare as well. Gen.Sc. [′bɑ(:)d(ð)rənz, ′bǫ:d(ð)ronz. See P.L.D. §85, §93.]Ork. 1854 D. Vedder Poems (1878) 187:
And baudrons, on the ingle rug, Will blithely churm at "auld gray thrums."ne.Sc. 1881 W. Gregor Folk-Lore of N.E. Scot. 126:
Ding dong, ding dong, Fah's this it's dead? It's puir pussy bauthrons O' a sehr hehd.Abd.(D) 1900 C. Murray Hamewith 9:
A low peat fire, where bauldrins span her thrums.Abd. 1995 Flora Garry Collected Poems 18:
I've hard fiddle tunes sae rare
An sweet they'd thowe a hert o steen
An fire the caalest bleed, bit neen
Wi yours, my bawdrons, can compare. Abd. 1995 Sheena Blackhall Lament for the Raj 6:
Aneth ma windae, the meen on the reef,
The bawdrons' silhouettes
And their Chinee tunes. Ags. 1815 W. Gardiner Poems and Songs, chiefly in the Sc. Dial. 42:
Wasna badrons sly an' cunnin'? Would you term it instinct that?Dundee 1991 W. N. Herbert in Tom Hubbard The New Makars 179:
thi scurry whelps an baudrins that'll pit
a paaprint til 'iz celsitude. Per. 1816 J. Duff Poems 10:
Bounce lap Badrans frae her hidin', Claught up Robin an' awa'.Slg. 1927 N. Dundas Castle Adamant 53:
It reminded her of "bawdrons stepping among the broken bottles on a wa'."Fif. 1841 C. Gray Lays and Lyrics 237:
Nae baudrons croon'd before the hearth, Nae dog without the door stood barkin'.Edb. 1773 R. Fergusson Sc. Poems (1925) 40:
Round him will badrins and the colly come, To wag their tail.Rnf. 1788 E. Picken Poems and Epistles 43:
That owre a branch, ty'd in a string He saw, wi' joy, auld Badrans hing.Lnk. 1775 D. Graham Writings (1883) II. 68:
Badrons came flying to that quarter, to repulse him with her claws.Ayr. 1833 Galt in Fraser's Mag. VIII. 656/2:
The glaiket baudrons chanced to see the seal of her father's watch glittering. [Baudrons here applied to a little girl.]Gall.(D) 1901 Trotter Gall. Gossip 246:
She . . . keepit a familiar speerit in the shape o' a muckle black baudrons, yt ey sat cockit up on her meal-airk.Rxb. 1821 A. Scott Poems 121:
Down sat she owre the spunk to cry, Her leefu' lane, Except poor baudrons croonin nigh, To soothe her maen.