Bouilly-bawn, white home-made bread of wheaten flour; often called _bully-bread_. (MacCall: Wexford.) From Irish _bul_ or _búilidhe_, a loaf, and _bán_, white.
Boundhalaun, a plant with thick hollow stem with joints, of which boys make rude syringes. From Irish _banndal_ or _bannlamh_, a _bandle_ (which see), with the dim. termination _án_, I never saw true boundhalauns outside Munster.
Bownloch, a sore on the sole of the foot always at the edge: from _bonn_ the foot-sole [pron. bown in the South], and _loch_ a mere termination. Also called a _Bine-lock_.
Bowraun, a sieve-shaped vessel for holding or measuring out corn, with the flat bottom made of dried sheepskin stretched tight; sometimes used as a rude tambourine, from which it gets the name _bowraun_; Irish _bodhur_ [pron. bower here], deaf, from the _bothered_ or indistinct sound. (South.)
Bow [to rhyme with _cow_]; a _banshee_, a _fetch_ (both which see. MacCall: South Leinster). This word has come down to us from very old times, for it preserves the memory of _Bugh_ [Boo], a _banshee_ or fairy queen once very celebrated, the daughter of { 223} Bove Derg king of the Dedannans or faery-race, of whom information will be obtained in the classical Irish story, 'The Fate of the Children of Lir,' the first in my 'Old Celtic Romances.' She has given her name to many hills all through Ireland. (See my 'Irish Names of Places,' I. 182, 183. See Bawshill.)
Box and dice; used to denote the whole lot: I'll send you all the books and manuscripts, box and dice.
Boxty; same as the Limerick _muddly_, which see.
Boy. Every Irishman is a 'boy' till he is married, and indeed often long after. (Crofton Croker: 'Ir. Fairy Legends.')
Brablins: a crowd of children: a rabble. (Monaghan.)
Bracket; speckled: a 'bracket cow.' Ir. _breac_, speckled.
Braddach; given to mischief; roguish. Ir. _bradach_, a thief: in the same sense as when a mother says to her child, 'You young thief, stop that mischief.' Often applied to cows inclined to break down and cross fences. (Meath and Monaghan.)
Brander; a gridiron. (North.) From Eng. _brand_.
Brash; a turn of sickness (North.) Water-brash (Munster), severe acidity of the stomach with a flow of watery saliva from the mouth. Brash (North), a short turn at churning, or at anything; a stroke of the churndash: 'Give the churn a few brashes.' In Donegal you will hear 'that's a good brash of hail.'