A dialectal or informal spelling of 'boy,' sometimes used in representation of Irish or South Asian English speech patterns.
Variant or dialectal spelling of 'boy,' used to represent how the word is pronounced in certain regional accents, particularly Irish or Anglo-Indian contexts from the colonial period.
Spellings like 'bhoy' show how writers tried to capture accents phonetically in older literature—it's a linguistic time capsule revealing what English speakers sounded like in different regions during the 1800s and early 1900s.
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