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"ref": "2005, Mark Alan Norris, Everything and Then Some, 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",
"text": "I greeted Shannon's request enthusiastically, \"Boy, howdy!\"",
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"ref": "2013, Honor James, The Rogue Hunter's Mate, 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",
"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?",
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"ref": "1992, Hugh Ruppersburg, Georgia Voices: Fiction, 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, page 43",
"text": "Boy, howdy, is it cold! This is not Paris, as in \"gay Paree,\" in France.",
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"ref": "2004, Will Hancok, All 'Bout Me, an Arkansas Tail, 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!'",
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"ref": "2007, Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree, page 77",
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"(idiomatic) Expresses emphasis."
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"text": "I greeted Shannon's request enthusiastically, \"Boy, howdy!\"",
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"ref": "2013, Honor James, The Rogue Hunter's Mate, page 60",
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},
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"ref": "2002, Carole Marsh, Heroes & Helpers, page 43",
"text": "Boy, howdy, is it cold! This is not Paris, as in \"gay Paree,\" in France.",
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},
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"ref": "2004, Will Hancok, All 'Bout Me, an Arkansas Tail, page 171",
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"type": "quotation"
},
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