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- noun Plural form of
boet .
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Examples
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Thackeray's "dapper" George is credited with the saying, that, "If beebles will be boets they must starve."
The Moccasin Maker E. Pauline Johnson 1887
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"True, it is yedt cold, und in der city we haf not many of der signs; but dere are dree kinds of beoble dot should always feel der approach of spring first -- dey are boets, lovers and poor vidows."
The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million O. Henry 1886
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Well, the Georges became our defenders of the faith, and they hated 'boets and bainters.'
The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] William Congreve 1699
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