Obs. Sc. [app. a. OF. bobert ‘stupid fellow, lout’ (Godef. quotes ‘li fous bouviers li fous bobers,’ and ‘c’est un bobers, un soz noez’): cf. Swiss Romance bobet ‘sot, bête.’] A sluggish fellow, a dull lout. Also attrib. or as adj. (Only in Gawin Douglas.)
1513. Douglas, Æneis, I. vii. 33. Fra their hife Expellis the bowbart [v.r. buobert] beist, the faynt drone be. Ibid., XI. xiv. 18. Quhou happynnis this … That ȝe sal evir sa doillit and bowbartis [v.r. bowbardis] be Onwrokyn sik iniuris to suffyr heir.
