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- noun dialect, Ireland
Boy . - noun A
tough , athug .
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Examples
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Then he wint around, and jumped on Tid while the bhoy was a pullin 'his sthring like smoke, makin' worse groanings than any time yit.
The Banner Boy Scouts Afloat or, the Secret of Cedar Island George A. Warren
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Among them, one recalls bhoy, which entered our political slang in the middle 40s and survived into our own time.
Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 4. Loan-Words and Non-English Influences Henry Louis 1921
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Then I bought in New York a large photographic portrait of a Northern "bhoy," recently released from captivity in the Libby prison, and who, by insufficient food, had been reduced literally to the condition of a skeleton; but photographs as painful might have been taken, I am afraid, of desperate cases of atrophy in the Lincoln Hospital at Washington .....
Echoes of the Week 1865
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(Now that I think on it, if Megrahi was obliged to spend 8 years in a cell watching Rangers, maybe he was entitled to a bit of compassion after all.) bhoy oh bhoy
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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September 14th, 2006 at 10:51 am animal bhoy says:
Think Progress » Air America To Declare Bankruptcy, But Progressive Radio Remains Strong 2006
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For a moment Slavin stared after Redmond's crouching form, as his subordinate disappeared in the gloom, "Thrust no harm comes tu th 'lad," he muttered irresolutely, "quick as a flash is th 'bhoy wid his head, eyah! but he's inclined tu be over rash at toimes."
The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall
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"Nay!" he said sharply, and with curious eagerness, "Du not 'chrown' um bhoy! lave um tu me!"
The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall
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Yeh're tellin 'th' trute, bhoy, yeh're tellin 'th' trute!
The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall
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"Faith," said Mick, on my telling him this, "it'll be moighty onplisint fur ye, Tom, me bhoy; thet gimblet oye ov his sames to go roight thro 'an' thro 'me, begorrah, if he ivver onst looks at me sure!"
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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"Sure, sor, the toob toombled down atop ov this poor bhoy here, an 'a'most made gammy duff ov him!"
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene
bilby commented on the word bhoy
a form of 'boy' used in parts of Scotland and Ireland; a thug, cove; a supporter (or player) of Glasgow Celtic football club.
November 9, 2007