good old boy

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good old boy

good ole boy, good ol' boy.

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cowboy, playboy...

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good old boy englanniksi

  1. puhekieltä A male friend or chum, especially a schoolmate; a man with an established network of friends who assist one another in social and business situations; a decent, dependable fellow.

  2. 1899, w:Stephen Crane|Stephen Crane, Active Service, ch. 5:

  3. "Billie, what kind of a lad is that young Coke up at Washurst?" He addressed an old college friend. . . .
    "He's one of those Ohio Cokes—regular thing—father millionaire—used to be a barber—good old boy."
  4. 1910, w:H. Rider Haggard|H. Rider Haggard, Queen Shebas Ring'', ch. 7:

  5. Tell these fellows to say to their Sultan that he is a good old boy, and that we thank him very much.
  6. puhekieltä A friendly, unambitious, relatively uneducated, sometimes racially biased white man who embody embodies the stereotype of the folksy culture of the rural southern USA.

  7. 1973, "http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,907968,00.html Quick Cuts" (film review), Time, 24 Sep.:

  8. "White Lightning" concerns a good old boy named Gator McKluskey (Burt Reynolds) who is serving time in the Arkansas pen for messing around with illegal liquor.

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