b'hoyn.

Forms: Also bhoy, bo-hoy.

Etymology: Supposed Irish pronunciation of boy n.¹ and int.

colloquial (originally U.S.).

A ruffian (cf. boy n.¹ 5b(a)); a gay or spirited fellow.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > merriment > [noun] > merry person or people

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b'hoy1846

1846 Knickerbocker May 467 A smile on his lip peculiar to ‘one of the bo-hoys’.

1846 Knickerbocker Dec. 557 A friend of ours..was much struck..by ‘The B'hoys’, returning from their Sunday drives.

1847 Knickerbocker Mar. 204 [He] had lived too long in the ‘wire-grass’ region to misunderstand the character of that peculiar class of b'hoys who dwell there.

1850 C. A. Bristed Upper Ten Thousand (1852) 29 Of not-to-be-mistaken Bowery cut—veritable ‘bhoys’.

1866 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 727 ‘I want’, said the stranger, ‘to see a b'hoy,—a real b'hoy.’

1868 N.Y. Home Jrnl. 17 Dec. The b'hoy is fast disappearing from among us, and the day is not far off, we apprehend, when the Bowery will know him no more.

1929 R. 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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	bhoy
释义	b'hoyn. Forms: Also bhoy, bo-hoy. Etymology: Supposed Irish pronunciation of boy n.¹ and int. colloquial (originally U.S.). A ruffian (cf. boy n.¹ 5b(a)); a gay or spirited fellow. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > merriment > [noun] > merry person or people cricket1621 b'hoy1846 1846 Knickerbocker May 467 A smile on his lip peculiar to ‘one of the bo-hoys’. 1846 Knickerbocker Dec. 557 A friend of ours..was much struck..by ‘The B'hoys’, returning from their Sunday drives. 1847 Knickerbocker Mar. 204 [He] had lived too long in the ‘wire-grass’ region to misunderstand the character of that peculiar class of b'hoys who dwell there. 1850 C. A. Bristed Upper Ten Thousand (1852) 29 Of not-to-be-mistaken Bowery cut—veritable ‘bhoys’. 1866 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 727 ‘I want’, said the stranger, ‘to see a b'hoy,—a real b'hoy.’ 1868 N.Y. Home Jrnl. 17 Dec. The b'hoy is fast disappearing from among us, and the day is not far off, we apprehend, when the Bowery will know him no more. 1929 R. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1846
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