An archaic or dialectal term; possibly relating to a deceptive or foolish person, though usage is extremely obscure.
Origin is unclear and possibly dialectal or regional. The term appears in very few historical texts and its etymology is uncertain.
Some words in English are so rare that even scholars debate whether they were ever truly 'words' or just scribal errors—'bedoyo' might be one of these linguistic ghosts that haunted medieval manuscripts.
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