Meaning & use
bodle
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A small, low-value copper coin formerly used in Scotland.
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The old saying claimed the trinket wasn't worth a bodle.
Historians found several bodles among the coins recovered from the shipwreck.
A note on using this word
An obsolete unit of currency, now encountered mainly in historical texts or old Scottish expressions.
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