Bodle

A bodle or boddle or bodwell, also known as a half groat or Turner was a Scottish copper coin, of less value than a bawbee, worth about one-sixth of an English penny, first issued under Charles II.[1] They were minted until the coronation of Anne. Its name may derive from Bothwell (a mint-master).[1]

This article is about the ancient Scottish coin. For the Oxford optoelectronics firm, see Bodle Technologies Limited. For other uses, see Bodle (surname).

It is mentioned in one of the songs of Joanna Baillie:

Black Madge, she is prudent, has sense in her noddle
Is douce and respectit; I carena a bodle.

The use of the word survives in the anglicised phrase "not to care a bodle",[1] which Brewer glosses as "not to care a farthing". Something similar appears in Burns' Tam o' Shanter (line 110), it is also mentioned:

Fair play, he car'd na deils a boddle (He cared not devils a bodle)

See also

In Sunderland, County Durham, in the North of England there is a well known as the Bodelwell.

References
  1.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bodle". Encyclopædia Britannica. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 110.
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