Checked my old Penguins "A Dictionary of Historical Slang".
Knut, k-nut. (The K- pronounced.) A very stylish (young) man about town; a dandy: from ca 1905. Prob. NUT orig. = head and knut has perhaps been influenced by KNOB. See also FILBERT.
B'hoys also crops up on some WWI era photos and postcards.
B'hoys. 'A town rowdy; a gay fellow'' Thornton: ex U.S. (1846), anglicised - almost wholly in the latter sense - ca 1865, Ex Irish pronounciation.
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