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billyhood

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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