Bode vs Hode - What's the difference?
bode | hode |
To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow.
To foreshow something; to augur.
* Dryden
An omen; a foreshadowing.
* Chaucer
(obsolete, or, dialect) A bid; an offer.
A messenger; a herald.
A stop; a halting; delay.
(bide)
* Tennyson
(obsolete) To ordain; consecrate; admit to a religious order.
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As a proper noun bode
is .As a noun hode is
testicle.bode
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) boden, from (etyl) ). : Since 1740 also a shortening of forebodeVerb
(bod)- Whatever now / The omen proved, it boded well to you.
Derived terms
* bodementNoun
(en noun)- The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- (Robertson)
Etymology 2
*Verb
(head)- There that night they bode .