Definition of "bhoy" [bhoy]

• Boy. (noun)
• A tough, a thug. (noun)

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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."
• "Among them, one recalls bhoy, which entered our political slang in the middle 40’s and survived into our own time."
• "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 ....."