boding Definition

bode¹
verb

boded, boding
1. To be a sign of something; to portend.

Thesaurus: indicate, warn, import, intimate, portend, prophesy, presage, threaten, betoken, augur.

Idiom: bode ill (bode well)

To be a bad or good sign for the future.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon as bodian in the obsolete sense ‘to announce'.