English Explanatory Dictionary

b'hoy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A rough-and-tumble working-class young man in Lower Manhattan between the late 1840s and the American Civil War period.

Word forms

b'hoy b'hoys

Etymology

Supposed to evoke an Irish pronunciation of boy.

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