boorjoy

Bourgeois.

…So that was who the sulky bitch was, boorjoy and stuck-up—he'd heard the tale, Alick had sloshed her son down at Gowans.

Once the thing he referred to as "Boorjoy" civilization was destroyed, there would be no more room for them, but while it lasted he liked having them about.

A bourgeois person; someone who is middle-class and conventional.

A lot of the Ellam Street boys read Ruskin and catch ideas about beauty which cause a lot of trouble till the girls get hold of them and marry them and turn them into respectable Boorjoys.

I'm making an effort towards communal life in the Coloured quarters of our great metropolis, a small light in a naughty world. All the boorjoys are very shocked, of course.