Brewer's: Bodle

A Scotch coin, worth the sixth of a penny; so called from Bothwell, a mint-master.

“Fair play, he car'd na deils a boddle.”

Burns: Tam o' Shanter,
line 110.

To care not a bodle
= our English phrase, “Not to care a farthing.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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