bosthoon

Some Tipperary bosthoon endangering the lives of the citizens.

Ulysses

James Joyce

“Blackmoor was an ass; but maybe he was as great a bosthoon in physic as in poetry,” rejoined Billy, promptly.

The Fortunes Of Glencore

Charles James Lever

An ye’ll all get the like o’ that, every bosthoon among yez, av ye get Home Rule.

Ireland as It Is

Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

Don’t you know the differ, Sir, between a threat an’ a warnin’, you bosthoon?’

The House by the Church-Yard

J. Sheridan Le Fanu