Bb: Bosthoon

Definitiona blockheadA Sentence to Use at Your Next Cocktail-PartyJoyce is such a bosthoon when he is around a pretty lady, his usual graceful demeanor becomes suddenly clouded, and he bumps into every gent at our party.

Literary Context

Among other exercises DALY taught Bosthoon to open the front door every morning at five o clock He accustomed the horse to march from the stable when an alarum set always at that hour went off lift one foot up to the old fashioned latch and press against it until the door yielded By degrees the manoeuvre was performed so punctually that DALY found all necessity for setting the alarum entirely obviated(I believe this was written by Owen Seaman).

Punch Volume 129  Magazine:
 By Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, Sir Owen Seaman

Film Strip:

There was no film on you tube for this word so I copied a picture from the faboulous site Wandering Rocks and its illustrations to James Joyce Ulysses.