bosthoon
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of bosthoon
C19: from Irish Gaelic bastún , from Old French baston penis
Example Sentences
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Here he slackened his pace as we passed a small bosthoon driving a donkey, to call out facetiously, "Be good to your little brother, achree!"
From Penelope's Irish Experiences by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
An ye'll all get the like o' that, every bosthoon among yez, av ye get Home Rule.
From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Robert John Buckley
"Then it's the quare woman she must be, bedad," said Matt, "unless it's yourself's the quare bosthoon on her entirely, and maybe that's liker;" a rejoinder which brought on a renewal of hostilities.
From Strangers at Lisconnel by Jane Barlow
People declared that "they'd never have thought he'd take and do such a thing, for though he might ha' been a quare sort of bosthoon, he was always dacint and paiceable."
From Strangers at Lisconnel by Jane Barlow
That bosthoon there, would make you believe he was in the coach, convarsing the whole way with him.
From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever
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