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bodeful

adj

Etymology

From bode + -ful.

  1. inherited from *bʰewdʰ-✻
  2. inherited from *budą✻ — “message; offer”
  3. inherited from *bod✻ — “command, mandate, order”
  4. inherited from bod — “command, edict, order”
  5. inherited from bod — “foreboding, omen; message, report; command, edict; (Christianity) commandment; etc.”
  6. inherited from *bʰewdʰ-✻ — “to be awake; to be aware”
  7. inherited from *budōną✻ — “to announce, proclaim; to call, summon”
  8. inherited from *bodōn✻ — “to announce, proclaim; to call, summon”
  9. inherited from bodian — “to announce, proclaim, tell; to foretell, prophesy; to preach; etc.”
  10. inherited from boden
  11. suffixed as bodeful — “bode + ful”

Definitions

  1. Portentous

    Portentous; ominous; foreboding.

    • It is a voice bodeful of death or of life.
    • They came ungraciously, but after his dark, bodeful hints as to the necessity of their attending service at the grazier's homestead next day, he was invited inside and a place was cleared for him at the table.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA