b'hoy

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Supposed to evoke an Irish pronunciation of boy.

Noun[edit]

b'hoy (plural b'hoys)

  1. (historical, slang) A rough-and-tumble working-class young man in Lower Manhattan between the late 1840s and the American Civil War period.
    Coordinate term: g'hal
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