Boi

n.

Heard in Waterford and Sligo

A casual name for any male friend or acquaintance whom one meets on the street but whose actual name one cannot recall at that moment.

In use

Well boi','not too bad boi

Posh English

Well now, old chap. I am tolerably well, my good fellow.

Same phrase, other counties

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