billyhood

English

Noun

billyhood (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, slang) brotherhood
   • 1818, James Hogg, Continuation of The brownie of Bodsbeck. The wool-gatherer. The hunt of Eildon‎^[1], page 31:

     Any man will stand py me when I am in te right, put wit a phrother I must always pe in te right.” “Od, man,” quo' I, “that's a stretch of billyhood that I was never up to afore.

   • 1912, John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English‎^[2], page 45:

     8. A brother ; hence Billyhood