The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bodle \Bo"dle\, n.
A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English
penny.
--Sir W. Scott.
Wiktionary
alt. A former Scottish copper coin of less value than a bawbee, worth about one-sixth of an English penny. n. A former Scottish copper coin of less value than a bawbee, worth about one-sixth of an English penny.
Wikipedia
A bodle or boddle or bodwell, also known as a half groat or Turner was a Scottish copper coin, of less value than a bawbee, worth about one-sixth of an English penny, first issued under Charles II. They were minted until the coronation of Anne. Its name may derive from Bothwell (a mint-master).
It is mentioned in one of the songs of Joanna Baillie:
Black Madge, she is prudent, has sense in her noddle Is douce and respectit; I carena a bodle.The use of the word survives in the anglicised phrase "not to care a bodle", which Brewer glosses as "not to care a farthing". Something similar appears in Burns' Tam o' Shanter (line 110), it is also mentioned:
Fair play, he car'd na deils a boddle (He cared not devils a bodle)Usage examples of "bodle".
I care not a bodle if a young gentleman flings his heels and is a wee bit wild in his conversation.
Show me what is best for Scotland, and Nicholas Kyd will spend his last bodle and shed his last drop of blood to compass it.
Indeed, we were deaved about the affability of old crabbit Bodle of Bodletonbrae, and his sister, Miss Jenny, when they favoured us with their company at the first inspection ball.
Also there was the weekly collection at the kirk services, where placks and doits and bodles, and a variety of debased coins, clinked in the plate at the kirk door, and there were the fines levied by the Session on evil-doers.
Indeed, we were deaved about the affability of old crabbit Bodle of Bodletonbrae, and his sister, Miss Jenny, when they favoured us with their company at the first inspection ball.