Bucknabarra; any non-edible fungus. (Fermanagh.) See Pookapyle.
Buck teeth; superfluous teeth which stand out from the ordinary row. (Knowles: Ulster.)
Buddaree [_dd_ sounded like _th_ in _they_]; a rich purse-proud vulgar farmer. (Munster.) Irish.
Buff; the skin; to strip to one's buff is to strip naked. Two fellows going to fight with fists strip to their buff, i.e. naked from the waist up. (Munster.)
Buggaun (Munster), buggeen (Leinster); an egg without a shell. Irish _bog_, soft, with the dim. termination.
Bullaun, a bull calf. Irish, as in next word.
Bullavaun, bullavogue; a strong, rough, bullying fellow. From _bulla_ the Irish form of _bull_. (Moran: Carlow.)
Bullaworrus; a spectral bull 'with fire blazing from his eyes, mouth, and nose,' that guards buried treasure by night. (Limerick.) Irish.
Bullia-bottha (or boolia-botha); a fight with sticks. (Simmons: Armagh.) Irish _buaileadh_, striking; and _bata_, a stick.
Bullagadaun [_d_ sounded like _th_ in _they_]; a short stout pot-bellied fellow. (Munster.) From Irish _bolg_ [pron. bullog], a belly, and the dim. _dán_.
{ 228} Bum; to cart turf to market: _bummer_, a person who does so as a way of living, like Billy Heffernan in 'Knocknagow.' Bum-bailiff, a bog bailiff. (Grainger: Arm.) Used more in the northern half of Ireland than in the southern.
Bun; the tail of a rabbit. (Simmons: Arm.) Irish _bun_, the end.
Bunnans; roots or stems of bushes or trees. (Meath.) From Irish _bun_ as in last word.
Bunnaun; a long stick or wattle. (Joyce: Limerick.)
Bunnioch; the last sheaf bound up in a field of reaped corn. The binder of this (usually a girl) will die unmarried. (MacCall: Wexford.)
Butt; a sort of cart boarded at bottom and all round the sides, 15 or 18 inches deep, for potatoes, sand, &c. (Limerick.) In Cork any kind of horse-cart or donkey-cart is called a _butt_, which is a departure from the (English) etymology. In Limerick any kind of cart except a butt is called a _car_; the word _cart_ is not used at all.
Butthoon has much the same meaning as _potthalowng_, which see. Irish _butún_, same sound and meaning. (Munster.)
Butter up; to flatter, to cajole by soft sugary words, generally with some selfish object in view:--'I suspected from the way he was buttering me up that he came to borrow money.'