bosthoon
Britishnoun
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Origin of bosthoon
C19: from Irish Gaelic bastún , from Old French baston penis
Example Sentences
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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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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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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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