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bosthoon Irish.|bɒˈstuːn|
Also bostoon.
[ad. Ir. bastún whip made of green rods, soft or spiritless fellow.]
An awkward fellow; a tactless, senseless person.
1833W. Carleton Traits I. 65 Sure only for this, I say, you bosthoon..where 'ud the purty colleen be? 1841S. C. & A. M. Hall Ireland I. 75 Ye grate Bosthoon. 1914Joyce Dubliners 197 Is this what we pay rates for?.. To feed and clothe these ignorant bostooms [sic]. 1932D. Johnston Moon in Yellow River i. 20 Are you the ignorant bosthoon that's banging and hammering away at my knocker? 1933Davies & Thomson tr. O'Sullivan's 20 Yrs. A-Growing xvii. 227 Remember your ancestors! Strike the bostoon! 1970M. Kenyon 100,000 Welcomes xiii. 105 If it hadn't been for that seethin' bosthoon Dempsey we'd have had it wrapped up. |