1982,Paul Radley,My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page113:
He went to the upstairs lookout and peered down upon the politicalbod, whom he recognised as the fatso who had given a thin, starving speech one lunch-time to the new High School students[.]
2005, Richard Templar,The Rules of Management, page73:
There were cameras covering car parks, offices, corridors and storage areas in the basement. Result. The securitybods started watching as if their lives depended on it.
2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and Facts behind railway plaques: Reading (1840)”, inRAIL, number947, page56:
People such as William James and the Stephensons (with whom he collaborated) may have been the movers and shakers of the early railways, but there was other, less exaltedbods who constructed all the paraphernalia - including stations.
The present-progressive forms withyd- (ydwyf, etc.), and hence the colloquial present-affirmative forms withd- (dw, etc.), are from the affirmative particleyd.[1] Colloquial affirmative forms withr- (rwyt,roeddwn, etc.) are from the affirmative particleyr. Colloquial negative forms withd- (dydw,does,doeddwn, etc.) are from the negative particlenid.
The third-person singular presentmae originally meant ‘here is’ and is from the same source asyma(“here”) plusProto-Celtic*esti. The third-person pluralmaent (colloquialmaen) is derived from the singular by adding the third-person plural verb ending-nt.
Counterfactual forms such aspetaswn andtaswn are from univerbation withpe(“if”) +yd(affirmative particle).[2]
The two conditional tense stemsbydd- andbas- can be opted between freely, althoughbas- is more common when used alongside acounterfactual in(pe) tas-.
The preterite is relatively rare and mostly interchangeable with the imperfect.
In the tenses given here, all forms ofbod must be linked to a noun, adjective or verb withyn,wedi, or some other similar particle.
The existential sense ("there is") uses the distinct interrogative formoes and negativedoes, however the affirmativemae is the same as the main verb, as are all non-present tenses.
Bod introduces a subordinate clause only when the corresponding main clause would begin with a form ofbod (the verb "to be") in the present or imperfect tense (including perfect and pluperfect clauses withwedi).
Nouns are preceded withbod, orfod if the preceding verb is conjugated.
^R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “petawn”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “bod”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies