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B'hoy and g'hal
B'hoy and g'hal (meant to evoke an Irish pronunciation of boy and gal, respectively)Sante, Low Life, 77. were the prevailing slang words used to describe the young men and women of the rough-and-tumble working class culture of Lower Manhattan in the late 1840s and into the period of the American Civil War.
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