bode (third-person singular simple present bodes, present participle boding, simple past and past participle boded) To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow.
Children get first mobile phone at average age of eight. Eight is the average age at which children are given their first mobile phone, according to a survey. More than a third of children (35 per cent) own a mobile by the time they are that age, the charity Personal Finance Education Group (pfeg) discovered.
In Influence Central's 2012 version of the survey, which collected data from about 1,000 woman, children reportedly received their first cellphone between the ages of 10 and 12, according to a company spokeswoman. â¹