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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bode/bəʊd/

▶verb (bode well/ill) be a portent of a good or bad outcome.

– origin OE bodian ‘proclaim, foretell’, from boda ‘messenger’, of Gmc origin.

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