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b'hoy colloq. (orig. U.S.).
Also bhoy, bo-hoy.
[Supposed Irish pronunc. of boy n.1]
= boy n.1 6 b; a gay or spirited fellow.
1846Knickerbocker XXVII. 467 A smile on his lip peculiar to ‘one of the bo-hoys’. Ibid. XXVIII. 557 A friend of ours..was much struck..by ‘The B'hoys’, returning from their Sunday drives. 1850C. A. Bristed Upper Ten Thousand (1852) 29 Of not-to-be-mistaken Bowery cut—veritable ‘bhoys’. 1866Atlantic Monthly Dec. 727 ‘I want’, said the stranger, ‘to see a b'hoy,—a real b'hoy.’ 1929R. Aldington Death of Hero i. i. 39 George Augustus..thought himself rather a hell of a bhoy because he occasionally sneaked off to a play or a whore. |