Boyo vs Boyg - What's the difference?
boyo | boyg |
(Ireland) A boy or lad.
A stereotypically Welsh form of address for a man (usually younger than the speaker).
* {{quote-book, year=1980
, year_published=1992
, publisher=Sheridan House, Inc
, author=Tristan Jones
, title=Adrift
, chapter=Down the Old Kent Road
v=onepage&q=boyo&f=false
, isbn=9780924486302
, page=73
, passage=“Can’t get onboard the boat,” Dai finished for me. “Bloody typical, it is, boyo .”}}
* {{quote-book, year=1995
, year_published=2003
, publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
, author=Peter Ho Davies
, title=The Ugliest House in the World: Stories
, chapter=The Ugliest House in the World
v=onepage&q=boyo%20wales&f=false
, isbn=9780395924808
, page=4
, passage=A taff is a Welshman. Everyone in the doctors’ mess calls me taff or taffy. Mr Swain, the mortuary attendant, calls me boyo , especially during the rugby season when Wales lose badly.}}
* {{quote-book, year=2006
, publisher=Lulu.com
, author=Francis Kerr Young
, title=Hang on a Second!
v=onepage&q=boyo&f=false
, isbn=9781411657267
, page=210
, passage=“You’re crazy boyo'!” Taffy gaped at his shipmate’s rosy cheeks, their hugh brightened by the Canadian blasts. “Now, what in the bloody hell were you doing out there ' boyo ?”}}
Formless hindrances personified as an enemy
*1936 , John Dos Passos, The Big Money , Random House, pages 93-94
*:He fought the boyg all right, pedantry, routine, timeservers at office desks, trustees, collegepresidents, the plump flunkies of the ruling businessmen, all the good jobs kept for yesmen, never enough money, every broadening hope thwarted.
As nouns the difference between boyo and boyg
is that boyo is (ireland) a boy or lad while boyg is formless hindrances personified as an enemy.boyo
English
Noun
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