Bauld Wullie
Preserved but no longer current.
See BELTED WILL. Baulk. See BALK. Baviad, The (bav' i ad). A merciless satire by Gifford on the Delia Cruscan poetry, pub- lished 1794, and republished the following year with a second part called The M&vfad. Bavius. and Maevms were two minor poets pilloried by Virgil (Eclogue, iii, 9).
Era: ca. 1898 (Victorian)
Sources & notes
Reproduced from Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898 edition, public domain; archive.org, retrieved 2026-07-31; OCR text, minor errors possible). Reflects the scholarship and attitudes of its era.
Common questions
What does “Bauld Wullie” mean?
See BELTED WILL. Baulk. See BALK. Baviad, The (bav' i ad). A merciless satire by Gifford on the Delia Cruscan poetry, pub- lished 1794, and republished the following year with a second part called The M&vfad. Bavius. and Maevms were two minor poets pilloried by Virgil (Eclogue, iii, 9).
Is “Bauld Wullie” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.