dogbolt
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Origin obscure. Possibly from Middle English *dolgbote, from Old English dolgbōt (“remedy or compensation for injury”), from dolg (“injury, wound”) + bōt (“remedy, boot”).
Noun edit
dogbolt (plural dogbolts)
- (obsolete, derogatory) A fool; a contemptible person.
- 1583, William Fulke, edited by Charles Henry Hartsthorne, A Defence of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holy Scriptures into the English Tongue, against the Manifold Cavils of Gregory Martin, published 1843, page 469:
- And experience sheweth, that he which was void of gifts before he was ordered priest, is as very an ass and dogbolt as he was before, […] .
- 1621, Thomas Middleton, Honourable Entertainments, 2007, Gary Taylor, John Lavagnino, Collected Works, page 1440,
- Dull dogbolt!
- 1655, James Shirley, The Gentleman of Venice Act 3, Scene 1, 1833, William Gifford, Alexander Dyce (editors), The Dramatic Works and Poems of James Shirley, Volume 5, page 35,
- They are dogbolts!
- 1822, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Peveril of the Peak. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 83:
- Thou wilt never be such a dogbolt to refuse a hint to a friend?
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
dogbolt (plural dogbolts)
References edit
- ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Dogbolt”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
- “dogbolt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.