boy n Cp Anglo-Manx Dialect for sense 1.
   2 [1983] 1985 LEHR & BEST (eds) 53 "The Drunken Captain": Our mate came up with the devil's fright/Sayin': 'B'ys she's filling through the big skylight.' 1986 SAUNDERS 186 'Leave me here, b'ys,' he kept saying. 'I'm all right.' But he...was full of water and his face and hands were cold as ice. 1987 JOHNSTON 26 And while Dad, with half a dozen men holding him, swore and shouted, Murchie was hustled out of the kitchen. 'Have ya got no better sense b'y,' the men said.

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