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bolye

bolye is the alternative form of booly.

Meaning of booly

Noun

booly (plural boolies)

  1. (Ireland, obsolete) A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk.
  2. (Ireland, obsolete) An enclosed shelter in the pasture land, usually in the mountainous parts, for the shelter of cattle or their herders.
    • The term booley was not confined to the mountainous districts; for in some parts of Ireland it was applied to any place where cattle were fed or milked, or which was set apart for dairy purposes.

Forms of bolye

pluralbolyes

Questions about bolye

What is bolye the alternative form of?
Bolye is the alternative form of booly.

Words near bolye in the dictionary

  1. Bolwarra Heights
  2. Bolwarrah
  3. Bolyaian
  4. bolyard
  5. Bolyards
  6. bolye
  7. bolyerid
  8. bolyeriid
  9. bolyeriids
  10. bolyes
  11. Bolz

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bolye (page history and authors); booly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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