Definition of "boyo" [boyo]

• A boy or lad. (noun)
• ) A stereotypically Welsh form of address for a man (usually younger than the speaker). (noun)

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• "Others might regard him as a conscienceless, borderline psychopath, and the riveting central performance by Rhys Ifans, who plays Marks as a charming, raffish boyo from the Welsh valleys, doesn't wholly preclude such an interpretation."
• "But as a young man, he was doubtlessly a "boyo," a bit of a lad."
• "The paper quotes literary expert Peter Finch as saying that "boyo" was once in common use, probably more in Swansea and Carmarthenshire than elsewhere."