boding Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a feeling of evil to come
    foreboding; presentiment; premonition.
    • a steadily escalating sense of foreboding
    • the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case
  2. verb indicate by signs
    omen; prefigure; auspicate; bode; betoken; portend; foreshadow; predict; foretell; augur; prognosticate; forecast; presage.
    • These signs bode bad news

WordNet

Bod"ing adjective
Definitions
  1. Foreshowing; presaging; ominous. -- Bod"ing*ly, adv.
Bod"ing noun
Definitions
  1. A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.

Webster 1913