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- noun Plural form of
poy .
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Examples
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We would order them in funny accents, asking for “Chuken kervs, chups and poys”.
yummy hair onlyemma 2006
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"Vat is dis, poys?" he asked, as he drew something into view.
The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour, or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain George A. Warren
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Do you subbose I raice poys to vait on draveling men? 'said Alex.
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"Pe sure as you don't shoke me, poys!" called out the dangling object below, in a manner to prove that he heard all they said.
Boy Scouts on a Long Hike Or, To the Rescue in the Black Water Swamps Archibald Lee Fletcher
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"Vell, poys, vat you vant, eh?" questioned the short, fat German, in his white cap and apron, from behind the lunch counter.
Frontier Boys in Frisco Wyn Roosevelt
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Tea-poys, light chairs, fragile vases have been undisturbed by crinoline even.
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She toddled over everything without restraint; tumbled over Chinese tea-poys and
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various
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Hambright, sorely wounded, his boot overflowing with blood and his hat riddled with three bullet holes, declined to dismount, but pressed gallantly forward, exclaiming in his "Pennsylvania Dutch": "Huzza, my prave poys, fight on a few minutes more, and the pattle will be over!"
The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 Archibald Henderson 1920
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You may now say goot bye to dese odder poys und come mit me.
Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal or Perils of the Black Bear Patrol 1909
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"Py cosh, I not stand for dose poys no more," he declared, wagging his head with its shiny crown and the fringe of grizzled hair around the back.
The Happy Family B. M. Bower 1905
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