George Bohee, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

George Bohee n.

also bohee

[rhy. sl.; ult. the name of a once well-known banjo player, but note bohea, the best variety of black tea, from the Wu-i hills in north Fukien, China]

tea.

1880		N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 2 Oct. 19/2: Wich is wot Sally Grundy she axes /As we sit a drinkin’ Bohee.
1893		P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 45: ‘What say to bohee?’ [...] We fell in with some hot bohee.
1984		Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 454/2: C.20; by 1945, ob.