buoyren

Yola

Alternative forms

• booyren

Etymology

Possibly cognate with English bullying. Unetymological <y> was influnced by Irish <úi> /uː/.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːˈɾiːn/

Verb

buoyren

1. to frighten, bullying

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 28