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Definition of 'bwoys'

English

Noun

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  • * {{quote-book|year=1898|author=Eden Phillpotts|title=Children of the Mist|chapter=|edition= citation
  • |passage="Now, you bwoys , give awver runnin' 'bout like rabbits," cried out Mr. Chapple. }}
  • * {{quote-book|year=1902|author=M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)|title=North, South and Over the Sea|chapter=|edition= citation
  • |passage=Lard ha' mercy me, ye could ha' knocked I down wi' a feather when Keeper told I--" "A-h-h-h, them bwoys o' Chaffey's has been poachin' again I d' 'low," interrupted Mrs. Haskell eagerly. }}
  • * {{quote-book|year=1903|author=William Barnes|title=Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect|chapter=|edition= citation
  • |passage=They went up leaene an hour agoo; An' at the green the young and wold Do stan' so thick as sheep in vwold: The men do laugh, the bwoys do shout,-- Come out you mwopen wench, come out, An' go wi' me, an' show at leaest Bright eyes an' smiles at Woodcom' feaest. }}