boy howdy

/ˈbɔɪ ˈhaʊdi/

interjection

Expresses strong support or agreement.

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Meanings

interjection
  1. idiomaticExpresses strong support or agreement.

    Boy howdy. There was indeed no rest for the wicked.

    2005, Mark Alan Norris, Everything and Then Some, →ISBN, page 140
    3 more examples

    I greeted Shannon's request enthusiastically, "Boy, howdy!"

    2010, Joe Barfield, Formula 2000, the Dream, →ISBN

    "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!

    2013, Honor James, The Rogue Hunter's Mate, →ISBN, page 60

    “Boy howdy, are you ever. You're on number four but there's no Doppler shift!"

    2014, Steven Gould, Exo: A Jumper Novel, →ISBN
  2. idiomaticExpresses emphasis.

    "Boy, howdy! Where do you get that stuff, you rummy?"

    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
    4 more examples

    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.

    1992, Hugh Ruppersburg, Georgia Voices: Fiction, →ISBN, page 460

    Boy, howdy, is it cold! This is not Paris, as in "gay Paree," in France.

    2002, Carole Marsh, Heroes & Helpers, →ISBN, page 43

    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!'

    2004, Will Hancok, All 'Bout Me, an Arkansas Tail, →ISBN, page 171

    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.

    2007, Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree, →ISBN, page 77
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APA

boy howdy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boy%20howdy

MLA

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Chicago

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