booly

English

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Etymology

Irish búachaill (“cowherd”).

Noun

booly (plural boolies)

  1. (obsolete) A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars.
  2. (obsolete) A place in the mountain pastures enclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for booly in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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