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boy howdy en · INTJ

Pronunciation

  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈbɔɪ ˈhaʊdi/

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) Expresses strong support or agreement.
    • I greeted Shannon's request enthusiastically, "Boy, howdy!" 2010, Joe Barfield, Formula 2000, the Dream, →ISBN:
    • “Boy howdy, are you ever. You're on number four but there's no Doppler shift!" 2014, Steven Gould, Exo: A Jumper Novel, →ISBN:
    • "Talk to me, Zaidu. What do you mean?" she asked quietly. "I'm more than a little confused here. I know what's happening in my life." Boy howdy, did she! 2013, Honor James, The Rogue Hunter's Mate, →ISBN, page 60:
    • Boy howdy. There was indeed no rest for the wicked. 2005, Mark Alan Norris, Everything and Then Some, →ISBN, page 140:
  2. (idiomatic) Expresses emphasis.
    • If there wasn't a dragging brake beam to rip me down the back, I was go'n make it! Boy howdy, I did some fancy praying. 2007, Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree, →ISBN, page 77:
    • Boy, howdy, is it cold! This is not Paris, as in "gay Paree," in France. 2002, Carole Marsh, Heroes & Helpers, →ISBN, page 43:
    • "Boy, howdy! Where do you get that stuff, you rummy?" 1918 October 26, George Pattullo, “Places of Dreadful Night”, in George Horace Lorimer, editor, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 191, number 17, Philadelphia: Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN, page 15:
    • Boy howdy, boy howdy, boy howdy! I was buried alive in noise, and the heat and cinders stung my neck and legs and the bottoms of my feet. 1992, Hugh Ruppersburg, Georgia Voices: Fiction, →ISBN, page 460:
    • l saw her just a standin' there with her little blue suitcase and l said, 'Boy howdy, would l like to crawl into her pants!' 2004, Will Hancok, All 'Bout Me, an Arkansas Tail, →ISBN, page 171: