Boy, Hidy (Boy, Howdy) (1918--WWI slang?)

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“Boy, Hidy!” (or “Boy, Howdy!")
 
"Boy, hidy!” (or “Boy, howdy!") is now regarded as usually a Texas  
expression. “Boy, howdy!” was popular in 1918, during World War I. The origin or  the 
phrase is unknown. “Boy, hidy!” is a combination of “boy!” and “howdy!” 
and  means something like “wow!” or “gosh yes!” or “gee whiz!” 


_Urban  Dictionary_ 
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boy howdy 
General expression/interjection, similar  in usage to “wow,” “oh, man,” or “
yep”. 
“Did the colonoscopy hurt at  all?” --"Boy howdy!” 
by Swid Sep 9, 2002 

boy howdy  
Southern slang. An interjection. Often used as an expression of surprise for  
large quantities of something, or severity of something. See yessum. 
“Boy  howdy! Them pumpkins sure are big! How’re we gonna carry ‘em all, Ms.  
McGregor?” 
by Fugerko.? Dec 23, 2003 

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Boy Hidy — An affirmation. 
Jim:  “This little skit sure stinks.” 
Terry: “Boy hidy.” 

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07-08-2006, 04:54 AM 
“Boy Hidy” I think I picked that up when I  use to live in Texas. People 
look at me really strange.  

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Posted: Nov 1, 2005 7:07 PM  
(...) 
And speaking of gravy, the local Chicken Express advertises they  have real 
Dublin Dr. Pepper.  You’re a Texan if you know that means it’s  made in 
Dublin, Texas with real pure cane sugar, and boy hidy, that is so good  it will make 
a rabbit slap a bear! 

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It is December 27, 2005, and, as the year draws to a close, boy, is it dry.  

Or, should that be “boy, hidy”? Sometimes one loses the grip on one’s  
native slang. 

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Country Music: the encyclopedia 
by Irwin and Grelun  Landon 
New York: St. Martin’s Press 
1969, 1982, 1984, 1997 copyrights  
Pg. 42: 
For most of its development period, the band (Boy Howdy—ed.) had  the name 
that eventually graced its recording successes. Larry Park commented,  “To us 
our name’s like a celebration of country music. Boy Howdy—in the old  Western 
movies you’d see somebody riding off on a horse and they’d say, ‘Boy,  howdy, 
did you see that guy shoot that gun?’ That kind of thing. It’s a very  
western expression.” 

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Academy All the Way 
by Grover Lewis 
New York: Simon  and Schuster 
1974 
Pg. 136: 
“Boy hidy, that guy’s weird, you  know it?” 
Pg. 184: 
Boy hidy, lemme tell you, I’m a hunnerd percent  behind him on that. 

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The Best Collectibles of  Larry L. King 
by Larry L. King 
Fort Worth: Texas Christian  University Press 
1985 
Pg. 195: 
“Boy Hidy, if that chocolate-coated  sumbitch don’t stay in his place...” 

13 May 1902, Uhrichsville  (OH) News-Democrat,” “HOWDY” (poem), pg. 6, col. 
1:  
Man that  sez it’s good enuff -- 
“Ol’ boy, howdy!” 
(...) 
-- Charles W.  Stevenson, in Lippincott’s Magazine. 

27 July 1918, Bridgeport (CT)  Telegram, pg. 5 ad (for wash suits): 
Boy, Howdy! 

5  August 1918, Lake County Times (Hammond, IN), “Boy Scouts Have Whale of a  
Time at Camp Near Lowell” by Lawrence Harris, pg. 1, col. 2: 
Boy Howdy! It  is some camp. 

16 January 1921, Galveston (TX) Daily News, “The  Mark of Zorro” ad, pg. 2, 
col. 2: 
Boy, Howdy! If you want to see something  snappy, exciting, romantic, full of 
tense action, bubbling over with romance,  chivalry and glamour, with thrills 
running neck and neck even fore the terrific  climax—you want to see this 
one. 

17 September 1921, Oakland (CA)  Tribune, “Chips Off the Old Block” by 
Robert Quillen, pg. 10, col. 1:  
Another evil effect of the war is that expression, “Boy, howdy,” 

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