A bode for disunity? Can "bode" be used this way? [closed]

I have only seen "bode" used with "bodes ill", "bodes well", "bodes no good". Bode as omen or portent of generalities. The word has an old Shakespearean feel to me.

I found this:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/with-2024-on-her-mind-haley-suggests-dems-should-give-trump-a-break-on-impeachment

“I don’t even think there is a basis for impeachment,” Haley told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham in an interview. Haley offered no qualifications for those claims — opting instead to suggest that impeaching her former boss was a bode for disunity.

Can one use bode to describe more specific predictions than good or bad? Could I say "The smell was a bode for shrimp curry"? Or did this person type bode by accident and mean to use a different word.

Solution 1:

I agree that this use of "bode" is just bad writing.

The only two words that I've ever heard come after "bode" are "ill" and "well." In the case of "well," I almost always hear it in the negative - i.e., "this does not bode well."

edit - I've also heard "bode" at the end of the sentence - e.g., "I'm not sure how this bodes." In any case, never used as a noun.