boust

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English bost, from Anglo-Norman bost. Cognate with Scots boost, boust (“to drive off, 'shoo' off”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːst/

Noun

boust

1. boast, bravado
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5, page 86:

     Mot w'all aar boust, hi soon was ee-teight

     But with all their bravado they were soon taught

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 27