bwoy
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bwoy (plural bwoys)
- (Jamaica) Pronunciation spelling of boy.
- 1891, Charles Dudley Warner, Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 4[1]:
- But eesterday he guided slow My downcast Jenny, vull o' woe, An' then my little maid in black, A-walken softly on her track; An' after he'd a-turn'd ageaen, To let me goo along the leaene, He had noo little bwoy to vill His last white eaerms, an' they stood still.
- 1898, Eden Phillpotts, Children of the Mist[2]:
- "Now, you bwoys, give awver runnin' 'bout like rabbits," cried out Mr. Chapple.
- 1902, M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell), North, South and Over the Sea[3]:
- 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. […] And Susan, she did write back immediate an' say, 'My poor bwoy, there be a sad surprise in store for you.'
- 1903, William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect[4]:
- 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.
- 1994 November 18, Rosalind Cummings, “Hip Hop Godfather”, in Chicago Reader[5]:
- Then comes the Stones' "Miss You"; on cue, the crowd yells in unison, "What's da matter wich you bwoy!"
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bwoy (plural bwoy dem, quantified bwoy)
- boy, guy, man
- Nancy love di bwoy whole 'eap suh shi tief weh a night fi check 'im.
- Nancy loved the boy a lot, so she'd sneaked out at night to go see him.
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- bwoy – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary