bolled

adj. (pp.)

'decorated in relief, embossed' (Modern English )

Etymology

Usually interpreted as a phonetic variant of bolned (thus OED, MED, Bj., McGee etc.).

PGmc Ancestor

*belgan-

Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)

bolgna (v.) ‘to swell, bulge’
(ONP bolgna (vb.))

Other Scandinavian Reflexes

Icel bólginn, Norw bolgen, Dan bullen, OSw bulghin, bulin

OE Cognate

belgan (v.) ‘to swell with anger’

Phonological and morphological markers

Summary category

CC1c

Attestation

The v. occurs in a variety of ME texts from c.1300 onwards, incl. Lydgate, but MED and OED only otherwise cite the pp. adj. in this sense from a1475 In place (Hrl 3954) from Norfolk.

Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus

Cl 1464

Bibliography

MED bollen (v.1) , OED bolled (adj.1) , HTOED , Bj. 15-16 n.1, 205