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bomboys

bomboys is the plural of bomboy.

Meaning of bomboy

Noun

bomboy (plural bomboys)

  1. (historical) A native supervisor of native laborers in colonial Africa.
    • Two Bomboys to take care [while] six Labourers work in the Garden and the Stockyard. Cudjoe, the Slaves' Bomboy went with ten Women to cut & carry Wood.a. 1980, quoted in A. van Dantzig, Forts and Castles of Ghana, 1980 (page 83)

Questions about bomboys

What is bomboys the plural of?
Bomboys is the plural of bomboy.

Words near bomboys in the dictionary

  1. bomboras
  2. bombous
  3. Bombowlee
  4. Bombowlee Creek
  5. bomboy
  6. bomboys
  7. bombproof
  8. bombproofed
  9. bombproofing
  10. bombproofs
  11. bombrack

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