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Bolder vs Bowlder - What's the difference?

bolder | bowlder |

As an adjective bolder

is comparative of bold.

As a noun bowlder is

dated form of lang=en.

bolder

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (bold)
    • ----

    bold

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) bold, from (etyl) bold, blod, bolt, .

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A dwelling; habitation; building.
    • Related terms
    * *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) bold, bald, beald, from (etyl) bald, .

    Adjective

    (boldness) (er)
  • Courageous, daring.
  • *, chapter=22
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}
  • * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
    • It would be extraordinarily bold of me to give it a try after seeing what has happened to you.
  • (of a font) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.
  • Presumptuous.
  • * 1748 , (David Hume), Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 9.
    • even the boldest and most affirmative philosophy, that has ever attempted to impose its crude dictates and principles on mankind.
    Synonyms
    * (courageous) audacious, brave, courageous, daring, forward * See also
    Related terms
    * embolden

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make (a font or some text) bold.
  • (obsolete) To make bold or daring.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) To become bold.
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    bowlder

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1900, author=Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, title=The Doomswoman, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Between was the wild valley where cattle grazed among the trees and the massive bowlders . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=B. M. Bower, title=The Gringos, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=His back humped; like a bowlder hurled down a mountain slope he made his rush, and nothing could swerve him. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1920, author=Harold Bindloss, title=Lister's Great Adventure, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The trees on the summit bent in the wind; spray leaped about the bowlders where the white foam rolled. }}