indicate the level to which a name has been verified.
Meaning & History
Nickname for a male relative (i.e. a member of an important family who was not the head of it), from Middle High German buole ‘kinsman’ (Old High German buolo, also used as a personal name).Nickname for a lover or the (illegitimate) child of a lover, from the same word in the later sense ‘paramour, lover, mistress’ (after 16th century).South German (Bühl): see Buehl