from the Old French oblique case of the Germanic
personal name Bodo meaning ‘messenger’, ‘herald’ (see
Bothe).nickname for someone with a prominent wart,
carbuncle, or boil, from Old French bo(u)ton ‘knob’, ‘lump’,
‘excrescence’ (from bo(u)ter ‘to thrust or
strike’).metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of
buttons, from Old French bo(u)ton, the same word as in 2,
specialized to mean ‘button’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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