bosthoonn.
/ˈbɒstuːn/, U.S. /ˈbɔsˌtun/, /ˈbɑsˌtun/, Irish English /ˈbɒːsθuːn/ Irish English.
An awkward fellow; a tactless, senseless person.
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1833 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry 2nd Ser. I. 65 Sure only for this, I say, you bosthoon..where 'ud the purty colleen be?
1841 S. C. Hall & A. M. Hall Ireland I. 75 Ye grate Bosthoon.
1902 Daily Chron. 30 July 7/1 If they had you in Tipperary they would duck you in a horsepond for the cowardly Saxon bosthoones you are.
1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 197 Is this what we pay rates for?.. To feed and clothe these ignorant bostooms [sic].
1932 D. Johnston Moon in Yellow River i. 20 Are you the ignorant bosthoon that's banging and hammering away at my knocker?
1933 M. L. Davies & G. D. Thomson tr. M. O'Sullivan Twenty Years A-Growing xvii. 227 Remember your ancestors! Strike the bostoon!
1970 M. Kenyon 100,000 Welcomes xiii. 105 If it hadn't been for that seethin' bosthoon Dempsey we'd have had it wrapped up.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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