Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA rough-and-tumble working-class young man in Lower Manhattan between the late 1840s and the American Civil War period. · A political operative.
Supposed to evoke an Irish pronunciation of boy.
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