"boy howdy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2005, Mark Alan Norris, Everything and Then Some, →ISBN, page 140:",
          "text": "Boy howdy. There was indeed no rest for the wicked.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "2010, Joe Barfield, Formula 2000, the Dream, →ISBN:",
          "text": "I greeted Shannon's request enthusiastically, \"Boy, howdy!\"",
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        {
          "ref": "2013, Honor James, The Rogue Hunter's Mate, →ISBN, page 60:",
          "text": "\"Talk to me, Zaidu. What do you mean?\" she asked quietly. \"I'm more than a little confused here. I know what's happening in my life.\" Boy howdy, did she!",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Steven Gould, Exo: A Jumper Novel, →ISBN:",
          "text": "“Boy howdy, are you ever. You're on number four but there's no Doppler shift!\"",
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        }
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        "Expresses strong support or agreement."
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        "(idiomatic) Expresses strong support or agreement."
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          "ref": "1918 October 26, George Pattullo, “Places of Dreadful Night”, in George Horace Lorimer, editor, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 191, number 17, Philadelphia: Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN, page 15:",
          "text": "\"Boy, howdy! Where do you get that stuff, you rummy?\"",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "1992, Hugh Ruppersburg, Georgia Voices: Fiction, →ISBN, page 460:",
          "text": "Boy howdy, boy howdy, boy howdy! I was buried alive in noise, and the heat and cinders stung my neck and legs and the bottoms of my feet.",
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        {
          "ref": "2002, Carole Marsh, Heroes & Helpers, →ISBN, page 43:",
          "text": "Boy, howdy, is it cold! This is not Paris, as in \"gay Paree,\" in France.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Will Hancok, All 'Bout Me, an Arkansas Tail, →ISBN, page 171:",
          "text": "l saw her just a standin' there with her little blue suitcase and l said, 'Boy howdy, would l like to crawl into her pants!'",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree, →ISBN, page 77:",
          "text": "If there wasn't a dragging brake beam to rip me down the back, I was go'n make it! Boy howdy, I did some fancy praying.",
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        "Expresses emphasis."
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        "(idiomatic) Expresses emphasis."
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          "ref": "2005, Mark Alan Norris, Everything and Then Some, →ISBN, page 140:",
          "text": "Boy howdy. There was indeed no rest for the wicked.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Joe Barfield, Formula 2000, the Dream, →ISBN:",
          "text": "I greeted Shannon's request enthusiastically, \"Boy, howdy!\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Honor James, The Rogue Hunter's Mate, →ISBN, page 60:",
          "text": "\"Talk to me, Zaidu. What do you mean?\" she asked quietly. \"I'm more than a little confused here. I know what's happening in my life.\" Boy howdy, did she!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Steven Gould, Exo: A Jumper Novel, →ISBN:",
          "text": "“Boy howdy, are you ever. You're on number four but there's no Doppler shift!\"",
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          "ref": "1918 October 26, George Pattullo, “Places of Dreadful Night”, in George Horace Lorimer, editor, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 191, number 17, Philadelphia: Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN, page 15:",
          "text": "\"Boy, howdy! Where do you get that stuff, you rummy?\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Hugh Ruppersburg, Georgia Voices: Fiction, →ISBN, page 460:",
          "text": "Boy howdy, boy howdy, boy howdy! I was buried alive in noise, and the heat and cinders stung my neck and legs and the bottoms of my feet.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Carole Marsh, Heroes & Helpers, →ISBN, page 43:",
          "text": "Boy, howdy, is it cold! This is not Paris, as in \"gay Paree,\" in France.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Will Hancok, All 'Bout Me, an Arkansas Tail, →ISBN, page 171:",
          "text": "l saw her just a standin' there with her little blue suitcase and l said, 'Boy howdy, would l like to crawl into her pants!'",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree, →ISBN, page 77:",
          "text": "If there wasn't a dragging brake beam to rip me down the back, I was go'n make it! Boy howdy, I did some fancy praying.",
          "type": "quote"
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        "Expresses emphasis."
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        "(idiomatic) Expresses emphasis."
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