"billy-oh" meaning in English

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          "text": "I bashed my thumb with a hammer, and it hurts like billy-oh.",
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          "ref": "1901, Edith Nesbit, The Wouldbegoods, T. Fisher Unwin:",
          "text": "\"For the wooden fence leading up to the bridge had caught fire, and it was burning like billy oh.\"",
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          "ref": "1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, HarperTrophy:",
          "text": "\"'You know—if you've ever picked the scab of a sore place. It hurts like billy-oh but it is such fun to see it coming away.'\"",
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          "ref": "1995, Marion Houldsworth, The Morning Side of the Hill, Boolarong Press:",
          "text": "\"'Our old saw's as blunt as billy-oh! You couldn't cut butter with it!'\"",
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        "The greatest extent or degree of something; used in comparisons to indicate a superlative."
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        "(slang, dated, mostly in the phrase 'like billy-oh') The greatest extent or degree of something; used in comparisons to indicate a superlative."
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      "word": "billio"
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