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bosthoon

/ ˈɒː /

noun

  1. a boor
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Origin of bosthoon1

C19: from Irish Gaelic ú , from Old French baston penis
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That bosthoon there, would make you believe he was in the coach, convarsing the whole way with him.

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It appears that someone told him of a big bosthoon of a giant called Far Rua being down at the Causeway to look for him, and so he set out there to try if he could catch him.

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An ye'll all get the like o' that, every bosthoon among yez, av ye get Home Rule.

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An', if he don't do annything, he's a dummy, an', if he does do annything, he's crazy; an' whin he dies, his foreman says: 'Sure, 'tis th' divvle's own time I had savin' that bosthoon fr'm desthroyin' himsilf.

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Cousin George is a good man, an' I'm very fond iv him,—more be raison iv his doin' that May-o bosthoon Pat Mountjoy, but he has low tastes.

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