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boding

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bod·ing

   [boh-ding]
noun
1.
a foreboding; omen.
adjective
2.
foreboding; ominous.

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Origin:
before 1000; (noun) Middle English; Old English bodunge announcement (see bode1, -ing1); (adj.) bode1 + -ing2

Related forms
bod·ing·ly, adverb
non·bod·ing, adjective
non·bod·ing·ly, adverb
pre·bod·ing, adjective
un·bod·ing, adjective
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well-bod·ing, adjective
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bode

1   [bohd] verb, bod·ed, bod·ing.
verb (used with object)
1.
to be an omen of; portend: The news bodes evil days for him.
2.
Archaic. to announce beforehand; predict.
verb (used without object)
3.
to portend: The news bodes well for him.
Origin:
before 1000; Middle English boden, Old English bodian to announce, foretell (cognate with Old Norse botha), derivative of boda messenger, cognate with German Bote, Old Norse bothi

bode

2   [bohd]
verb
a simple past tense of bide.
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bode1 (bəʊd)
 
—vb
1.  to be an omen of (good or ill, esp of ill); portend; presage
2.  archaic (tr) to predict; foretell
 
[Old English bodian; related to Old Norse botha to proclaim, Old Frisian bodia to invite]
 
'boding1
 
—n, —adj
 
'bodement1
 
—n

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bode
O.E. bodian "proclaim, announce; foretell," from boda "messenger," probably from P.Gmc. *budon- (cf. O.S. gibod, Ger. gebot, O.N. boð), from PIE *bheudh- "be aware, make aware" (cf. bid). As a shortened form of forebode (usually evil), it dates from 1740.
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