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ˈyellow-boy slang. Obs. exc. Hist.
(Also as two words.)
A gold coin; a guinea or sovereign.
1662J. Wilson Cheats i. i, Do they cry Chink in thy Pocket?—How many yellow Boyes (Rogue) How many yellow Boyes? 1663Dryden Wild Gallant iii. i, If one could see the yellow boyes peeping underneath the brims now. 1700T. Brown tr. Fresny's Amusem. 129, I have..in my Pocket brave Yellow-Boys, to pay for a Coat of Arms. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull i. vi, Yellow-boys to fee counsel, hire witnesses, and bribe juries. 1838J. Grant Sk. Lond. 182 If you don't fork out the yellow boys (sovereigns) presently, I'll send a ball through your carcass. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop xlii, The delight of picking up the money—the bright, shining yellow-boys. 1883‘Mark Twain’ Life on Miss. xxxvi. 389 A round ten thousand dollars in yellow-boys. 1898A. M. Binstead Pink 'Un & Pelican x. 219 Gazing contemptuously at the yellow-boy, and then at its donor, she cried: ‘An' since when has a ‘new hat’ ceased to be a guinea?’ 1957A. Bryant in J. B. Booth Palmy Days p. xi, He reconstructs a vanished world: the last age of horses and ‘yellow boys’. |