billyhood

noun

noun

Obsolete, Slang Brotherhood.

Any man will stand py me when I am in te right, put wit a phrother I must always pe in te right.” “Od, man,” quo' I, “that's a stretch of billyhood that I was never up to afore.1818, James Hogg, Continuation of The brownie of Bodsbeck. The wool-gatherer. The hunt of Eildon, page 31:
8. A brother ; hence Billyhood1912, John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English, page 45:

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